C. Middle-class salesman buys his family a home after 20 years of hard work
B one half because g<span>enerally, </span>hyphenate<span> two or more </span>words<span> when they come before a noun they modify and act as a single idea.</span>
Answer:
D. The contest received over two hundred essays; three were judged to be good enough for publication.
Explanation:
In a correct grammatical sentence, there are numerous punctuation marks that can signify how a sentence can be correctly written. These punctuation marks play an important role in how the sentence comes out and is represented.
In the given sentence, the best/ correct sentence is the sentence that has the semi-colon in it. This semi-colon allows the two parts of the sentence to be separate yet have a connection. The <em><u>semi-colon is used to connect two related sentences yet have contrasting opinions or statements</u></em>.
Thus, the correct answer is option D.
The theme of this story is sin, and its consequences. Mallam Sile is a blind tea seller, he is gentle, and people usually take advantage of him and his blindness, but he doesn't really react to that. He finds a wife who is not afraid to punish his bullies, and thus return everything that was stolen from him.
By making it personal for the reader. "Go where you may, search where you will."
He is saying that if you do what you want, as I have done, and travel the world, as I have done, you will come back and lay all facts of what you have learned at your feet and agree with him, that "America reigns without a rival". By making it personal, in a way that the reader can identify with, you are more likely to see his point of view.
