Answer:
<u>Simple sentence:</u>
My ears are going to get pierced.
<u>I’m not sure if this is a compoun-complex sentence or not</u>
I am so excited, but I am also a little scared.
<u>Complex sentence:</u>
I let go off my mom's hand, which took a lot of courage.
<u>Compound sentence:</u>
I sit on the chair and waited for my ears to get pierced, and I felt like an adult!
Answer:
The second test Alchemist gives to Santiago is <em>finding a sign of life in the desert.</em>
Explanation:
The Alchemist is novel by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho published in 1988. It is the story of an Andalusian shepherd boy Santiago's following of his personal legend in search of treasure, from Andalusia (in Spain) to Pyramids of Egypt through Sahara desert).
After the pair leaves the oasis and the tribe, Alchemist asks Santiago to lead him where there is life in the desert. Santiago is initially confused, but when Alchemist gives him a vague idea that life attracts life, Santiago understands it. He lets his horse run free, and where the horse stops, he knows that here is some life. They find a hole and a cobra in it.
The Alchemist wanted to test Santiago's skills to understand and use the <em>Language of the World.</em><em> </em>This task demanded to communicate with the world not directly but indirectly by his understanding of the natural things around him. Just as Santiago did not need to communicate directly with cobra to find it, but he had to interact with his horse and desert to find a sign of life, in the same way, he would need to interact with other things of the natural world to find his personal legend and treasure.
The wild oat seeds were stuck to the turtle's front legs, so when it was rolled off the road, the seeds fell off and onto the ground. The turtle then started moving, and while it was doing that, it covered the seeds with ground, and thus it planted them. One day, those seeds would grow into wild oats thanks to the turtle.
The author of "My Brother's Keeper" emphasizes Jaime's conflict by flashing back to earlier events with his brother Ted.
In "My Brother's Keeper", the author includes the line "and Jaime thought to himself, this time it must be bad" in Jamie's phone conversation with Ted in order to develop Ted as a character who often is in trouble.
Answer: PART B: Which TWO of the following quotes best support the answer to Part A? A. “Nicholas II, by contrast, was one of history’s most dismal examples of the wrong man, at the wrong time, and in the wrong place. His reign seemed to be almost predetermined to end in a momentous tragedy.” (Paragraph 6) B. “They had ruled Russia for more than 280 years, and most of their subjects—as the czar’s German-born wife, Alexandra, wrote to British Queen Victoria —practically worshipped them “as divine beings.” (Paragraph 9) C. “What the last Romanov did not have was an understanding and respect for the dirt-poor and frequently hungry peasants who eked out a meager living, and it was part of Nicholas’ misfortune that his abysmal insensitivity and weakness were revealed on the very day after his coronation.” (Paragraph 12) D. “In February 1904—less than four months later—Japan launched a surprise attack that destroyed a Russian fleet and threatened to seize Port Arthur, Russia’s only warm-water port. In the war that followed, the Japanese army decisively won every battle…” (Paragraph 24) E. “Nicholas also showed a puzzling disregard for a major uproar in his own court over the growing influence of a mystical faith healer named Grigori Rasputin.” (Paragraph 27) F. “After the control over the country shifted from a provisional government to Lenin’s radicals (the Bolsheviks), the royal couple, their son and four daughters, and the ex-czar’s personal physician and three servants were moved to a house in Yekaterinburg, a town beyond the Urals.” (Paragraph 30)
