In 1887, Hamlin Garland traveled from Boston to South Dakota to visit his mother and father, whom he had not seen in six years. According to his own account, the trip through farming country was a revelation. Although he had been brought up on a farm, he had never realized how wretched farmers’ lives were. The farther west he traveled, the more oppressive it became for him to see the bleakness of the landscape and the poverty of its people. When he reached his parents’ farm and found his mother living in hopeless misery, Garland’s depression turned to bitterness, and in this mood he wrote Main-Travelled Roads, a series of short stories about farm life in the Midwest.
This question is missing the options. I have found the complete question online. We are supposed to fill in the blanks with the appropriate word or phrase:
Prices at the mall were outrageous,______, considerably higher than at other shopping centers.
A. or at least
B. in other words
C. not to say
Answer:
Prices at the mall were outrageous, A. or at least, considerably higher than at other shopping centers.
Explanation:
<u>"Or at least" is used when we add similar information to what has already been said, but not identical. It is as if we are rethinking what we said and specifying it better, being careful to not exaggerate. </u>
For example: "He hates ice cream, or at least I think he does, because he never has ice cream when he is with me." "Or at least" was used in the sentence to explain why I think he hates ice cream and to show that maybe the first piece of information was an exaggeration.
<u>This is the best phrase to use in the sentence given in the question. The speaker first says the prices are outrageous, be then he thinks again and uses "or at least" to show that the prices are higher than in other malls. Perhaps they were not outrageous after all.</u>
Answer:
She provides examples of things that are invisible
Explanation:
<em>There's more to invisibility than what doesn't meet the eye. </em><em>All sorts of things are invisible to us</em><em>, for different reasons. </em><em>Some, like atoms</em><em>, </em><u><em>are too tiny to see.</em></u><em> Others, l</em><em>ike a black cat on a dark night</em><em>, </em><u><em>aren't lit brightly enough</em></u><em>. </em>
The author provides examples of things that are invisible.
Answer:
In" The Rocking - Horse Winner" by D.H.Lawrence, paul's mother, Hester is not an admirable woman in any way. She claims she has no luck ,yet in the opening lines of the story we learn that she is beautiful , married for love ,and has beautiful children. She "started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck".Her love "truned to dust ," and though her children are lovely, she feels as if " they had been thrust..
I think the answer is d.
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