1. It helps you to run through and correct any mistakes so when you give the speech it runs more smoothly.
2. it also helps to boost your confidence when you practice.
If Erika's teammates so happened to give her a lot of reasons to go along with their plan, then the implicit message (or the underlying meaning; 'read-between-the-lines- message) would be that Erika should agree too it because it is a good plan that they were proposing.
Our world would be different because without the printing press we would have no books, so school would be different and probably more difficult. Without the printing press we never would have printed bibles so church and any religious studies would be different (and probably more difficult) AND of course we would have no newspapers so there would be less advertising, and nothing to read on Sunday morning.
Mark Twain wants to add religious overtones (b)
Because St. Bernard is a dog but has a slightly religious name and a Presbyterian is a dog but also a British church.
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