Answer:
When Ellery says, "’I see we'll have to do it the hard way,’" it creates tension because it reveals how hard Ellery will have to work to try to solve the crime.
Explanation:
<em>Object Lessons</em> by Ellery Queen is a short story about a detective work that the author did for a school teacher when she lost <em>"seven one-dollar bills"</em> in her own classroom. The story deals with juvenile crimes committed by three young boys and their teacher's refusal to let them be given straight to the authorities without a second chance.
In the given excerpt, Ellery decided to do a voluntary body search among the school students to get back the lost money. Suspense is built when he stated <em>"I see we'll have to do it the hard way"</em>. This creates suspense in such a way that he will try to solve the crime in whatever means he can.
Thus, the correct answer is the first option.
Answer:
I believe the best choice is the first pair, "pat" vs. "pot".
Explanation:
As we know, a minimal pair is a pair of words that present only one different phoneme, that is, words that are not identical due to one single sound.
We are here trying to find a minimal pair related to low vowels. Low vowels are also called open vowels. They happen when the tongue is as far as possible from the roof of the mouth. For that reason, we could already choose "pat" and "pot" as the correct option. Pat /pæt / and pot /pɑt/ or /pɒt/ both present open vowels. The other pairs don't.
Still, what makes the pair "pat" vs. "pot" surely the right one is the fact that the phonemes æ and ɑ -- or ɒ, depeding if it is British or American -- are made different by their backness. Backness is the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth. In "pat", we have a front position, while in "pot" we have a back position.
G, f,b, e, c, d, a. in that order fill them
