The narrators were separated from their birth parents
The first passage starts with the narrator's opinion of selling children. That gives us an idea of what the second paragraph is about. The sentence where it said the woman pretending to take me in her arms, indicates that the woman is not the narrator's mother but she acts like it. A child would not call his/her mother a woman.
The second passage is clearer with this fact. "and left me about half a year old, and in bad hands". This indicates that the narrator was left with someone besides his/her parents. The "her" the narrator mentions in this passage his/her mother, and when it states that she was transported to the plantation it is inferred that the narrator did not go with her, as it said he/she was left.
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Even though you didn't bold the noun clauses, it is still obvious which ones they are in these sentences.
1. The noun clause is <em>what I saw in the closet. </em>The function that this noun clause performs is subject. Subject of a sentence is what performs a particular action - in this case, the subject (or the entire noun clause) has left the narrator speechless. If it's confusing, you can replace the clause with a simple pronoun <em>it - </em>It left me speechless, and then it's easier to see it is indeed a subject.
2. The noun clause is <em>how to swim. </em>The function that this noun clause performs is direct object. Direct objects answer the questions <em>whom </em>or <em>what - </em>in this case, you can simply ask - What did I learn when I was six? And the answer would be that entire noun clause - <em>how to swim. </em>
3. The noun clauses here are <em>what my conscience was telling me </em>and <em>what I wanted to do. </em>The function that these noun clauses are performing is object of a preposition. Object of a preposition is really easy to spot - it is a word, phrase, or an entire clause which is located right after a preposition. In this example, the word <em>between </em>is a preposition, and the clauses following it are its objects.
4. The noun clause here is <em>what kept me awake all night. </em>The function that this noun clause performs is predicative nominative. A predicative nominative is a noun, a noun phrase, or a noun clause that is found after a linking verb in a sentence. A linking verb connects two parts of a sentence - here, that verb is <em>is </em>and the clause following it is its nominative.
Question:
The role of women in the world
Answer:
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The role of a women in the world is to teach children and cater to them. they are mostly the elders and leaders in familys.
There is so a sterotype that women are here to cook and clean and also watch the kids. but it isn't true out of my perspective, so people that say that are most likely sexist; but thats just from my perspective once again.
Answer:
1. The kind of competition Sandy joined was a writing competition.
2. From the text, we can infer that the writer was proud of Sandy because Sandy was a female who was the most successful at the competition.
Explanation:
From the passage, we discover that from Mrs. Karina congratulatory message to Sandy, Sandy was actually part of a writing competition which involved synopsis writing.
Also, Mrs. Karina congratulated Sandy and was proud of her because she tends to be the only female that was successful in the writing competition to emerge as the second position winner.
