The answer is b, are.
The reason is because it is the only one that fits in the sentence that makes sense!
What the heII even is this question??? XD
Answer:
See explanation below
Explanation:
The first two lines of How Things Work by Gary Soto read;
<em>Today its going to cost us twenty dollars </em>
<em>To live. Five for a soft ball. Four for a book</em>
Pauses are in line 2 just where the full stops are
Stresses are on the words: Today, Five, Four
When these words are stressed, the sentence gains more meaning and feeling.
This can help you.
<span>When the speaker sees bent birch trees, he likes to think that they are bent because boys have been “swinging” them. He knows that they are, in fact, bent by ice storms. Yet he prefers his vision of a boy climbing a tree carefully and then swinging at the tree’s crest to the ground. He used to do this himself and dreams of going back to those days. He likens birch swinging to getting “away from the earth awhile” and then coming back. hope this helps you
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Non Fiction and Biography
