To say that Anne has an equal chance to be selected for senate as her 23 classmates means that she has a 1/24 chance of getting the position.
The probability is 1/24, or 4.167%.
It wasn’t because he threw that battle-ax that I turned on Hrothgar. That was mere midnight foolishness. I dismissed it,thought of it afterward only as you remember a tree that fell on you or an adder you stepped on by accident, except of course that Hrothgar was more to be feared than a tree or snake. It wasn’t until later, when I was full-grown and Hrothgar was an old, old man, that I settled my soul on destroying him—slowly and cruelly.
What the author is using in this excerpt to develop Grendel's character is Grendel's thoughts. He isn't really saying all of these things.
There was no name for this virtue in Greek, and in English we use the same word both for the virtue and for the vice of excess (maybe we have trouble distinguishing them). The deficiency we just call “lack of ambition.” Good temper – is moderation in one's proneness to anger.
Answer:
my guess is
"It's too cold to go outside," Martha complained.
Explanation:
dialogue rules state you use a comma to end dialogue and not a period.
It’s glittering generalities. Because plain folks won’t persuade an audience and name calling will probably make them walk away
