<span>1-The fastest land dwelling
creature is the Cheetah. </span>
<span>Fact. This is fact because it can be verified.</span>
2-the ugliest sea creature is
the manatee.
<span>Opinion. Because opinions vary and beauty (or
ugliness) is relative, perspectives on what is considered “ugly” will vary.</span>
3-prison is one of the worst
places on the planet.
<span>Opinion. This is a relative thought. To some, prison might be considered a good
place. In fact, there are instances
where convicts cannot function in society after a long prison term and commit
crimes to be returned to prison because society has become a bad place—a place
where hardships outweigh those they faced in prison.</span>
4-Oranges contain both calcium
and vitamin C.
<span>Fact. This is something that can be tested and
verified as true. </span>
<span>NOTE: When trying to determine whether something is
a fact or an opinion, just be sure to keep in mind that if the statement can be
proven, it is fact; if the statement cannot be proven, it must be an opinion.</span>
An allegory is a story that uses characters and settings as symbols that carry a deeper meaning beyond the obvious meaning of the story. Which excerptfrom Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" best reveals the allegorical nature of this short story?
<span>d) With a shuddering impulse, that showed her a woman still, the widow clasped her skinny hands before her face, and wished that the coffin-lid were over it, since it could be no longer beautiful.</span>
I believe the correct answer is B. It is the only sentence where the punctuation marks are correctly placed. For the first sentence, the apostrophe in Dorris should be placed in the last letter of the name and an s is not to be added since the name ends with an s. For option C, some commas should be inserted in the sentence to make sense of the sentence. And, for the last option, the semi colon is not to be used instead a period should be placed.
I remember that being true from when i read that
