Some details that the text show that the excerpt was written in the past and not the present is, the story uses a lot of had and was which could be a huge clue that the text was written in the past sense its using past tense vocabulary. for example, in the excerpt it talks about how the children had a kind and merry housemaid. If it was present tense then the sentence would be, they have a kind and merry housemaid because it would mean that the house maid is with them right now and if it was future tense then it would be they will have a kind and merry housemaid because they don't have the maid yet and you would be using future tense words to indicate it hasn't happened yet. I hope this makes sense and helps.
An independent clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence, as opposed to a dependent one.
there where no a/c to heat the castle unless they used fire to get worm.
Answer:
She wants to <u>explain her reasons for writing a memoir.</u>
Explanation:
<em>A Girl named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana</em> is a memoir of the narrator/ author Haven Kimmel. She used this book to describe the childhood life that she and her family had in the small town of Mooreland, and also as a means to make people aware of the unknown town.
The author included the prologue to provide a sort of introduction of her home and the place, which most people seem to be unaware of. She recounts how her sister has <em>"assumed that the book on Mooreland had yet to be written because no one sane would be interested in reading it"</em>. Then, she also stated her own belief that <em>"there was so much more to the town than its trappings"</em>, which is in a sense why she decided to write the book.
