Answer:
The statement that best describes the excerpt is:
3- Most of the sentences have a similar structure.
Explanation:
The first two sentences may seem longer, having more elements. But from the third sentence on, what we have are simple clauses, independent sentences. The structure is so similar that Paine was able to omit the verb "to be" from the fourth sentence on, since it had been mentioned in the previous sentence, and the other are somehow a continuation of that same idea. Therefore, we can safely say that most of the sentences have a similar structure.
Answer:
And when . . . people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.
Explanation:
An ellipsis is a series of three dots that is used to indicate the omission of surplus words that can be understood or decoded by examining context clues.
In the excerpt above, the omission of the figures 100, and 1,000,000 still allowed for the retention of the meaning of the passage. Therefore, an ellipsis can be used to replace these figures and shorten Anthony's words.
Answer: B. suggest that each walk follows the same sequence of events
Explanation:
In the first stanza of the poem Dog-Walk by Mary Balazs, Mary describes how the dog has learnt to avoid certain things such as thistles or to go towards things she finds pleasant such as the areas where the plantains are soft.
She has learnt this due to the familiarity she had developed from walking the same path for a while following the same sequence. The frequency of these walks is symbolized by the use of the phrases <em>Over the years </em>and<em> From thousands of walks</em>.
The answer is a. the fact that Oedipus killed his father and married his mother
