A) listing the names of top cancer research scientists today
B) interviewing the parents of a child who has died of cancer
Eliminate
C) presenting budgets from various cancer research organizations
D) providing statistics on how many children died of cancer each year
A. The gymnasium, decorated with balloons and streamers for the school dance, looked more festive than usual.
Answer:
<u>Canning </u>or<u> freezing</u> keeps food from spoiling.
Explanation:
I've underlined the subject and written the predicate in bold letters.
The subject is the part of the sentence that tells us who or what is performing an action expressed by the verb. It can also tell us who or what is being described by the predicate.
The predicate tells us what the subject is doing or describes the subject.
Here, the subject are the words <em>canning</em> and<em> freezing</em>. This is a compound subject - a subject that consists of two or more simple subjects that share a verb or verb phrase. The verb these words share is <em>keeps</em>. This verb is a part of the complete predicate: <em>keeps food from spoiling.</em>
To confirm this, we can ask:
- for the subject - <em>What keeps food from spoiling? </em><em>Canning or freezing.</em>
- for the predicate - <em>What does canning or freezing do? It </em><em>keeps</em><em> </em><em>food from spoiling.</em>
Tan worries what Robert will think of her relatives who “lacked proper American manners.”
This is the correct answer because it shows that she is worried about what Robert's family would think. In the first option it centers around Tan's feelings of being angry with Robert, not being worried. This detail is also wrong. The second option also centers around Tan's feelings about their differences but not specifically about their different customs. The third option illustrates how Tan believes Robert's family will view the food her family eats. In actuality Tan's mother makes all of Tan's favorite foods because she knew the dinner was important to her daughter.
