By explaining the concept of being an “also-ran,” the author describes someone who enjoys participating in a contest even though he or she does not win. The quotation from paragraph 9 expresses the author's positive viewpoint of “also-rans” who “finish third in a three-horse race.
Answer:
Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder.
Hyper active kids don't need medication.
Televise all court proceedings.
There is no place for monarchs any more.
Parallel structure is the repetition of a grammatical pattern.
Romeo Montague is the embodiment of...
- romantic idealism, passionate intensity, and adolescent rebellion. Extract the core words to get "idealism, intensity, rebellion". This list follows the pattern "noun, noun, noun".
- romance, passionately intense and raging with adolescent rebellion. Extract the core words to get "romance, intense, raging". This list follows the pattern "noun, adjective, verb".
- romantic idealism, passionate, intensity, and adolescent rebelling. Extract the core words to get "idealism, passionate, intensity, rebelling". This list follows the pattern "noun, adjective, noun, verb".
- romance and idealism - passionate, intense, an adolescent rebel. Extract the core words to get "passionate, intense, a rebel". This follows the pattern "adjective, adjective, noun".
Only the first choice repeats a grammatical pattern. Therefore the correct answer is Choice A.
Answer:
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in US history. It began in 1929 and did not abate until the end of the 1930s.
The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business.
Although President Herbert Hoover attempted to spark growth in the economy through measures like the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, these measures did little to solve the crisis.
Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in November 1932. Inaugurated as president in March 1933, Roosevelt’s New Deal offered a new approach to the Great Depression.
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