Answer:A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause.
Explanation:
A relative pronoun serves the purpose of conjoining modifying information about an antecedent referent. An example is the word that in the sentence "This is the house that Jack built."
Correct is the word recant....
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I've taken this assesment before and I'm pretty sure, if I remember correctly, it's D.
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The question is from the newsela article, <em>"Missteps lead publishing industry to review diversity effort."</em>
The answers are:
- (A) The latest results showed the industry is around 75 percent white and mostly female.
- (C) Cummins is not of Mexican heritage but visited the country and migrant shelters along the border for book research. In a New York Times op-ed in 2016, she wrote, "My family is mostly white." She has one Puerto Rican grandparent.
- (B) to demonstrate the effectiveness of a diversity program aimed at increasing diversity in publishing.
- (C) She would disagree and note the changes she has observed since beginning her career.
Explanation:
- The information, "<em>The children's book publisher Lee & Low released a survey of people who work in publishing. The latest results showed the industry is around 75 percent white and mostly female." </em>conveys that empirical data supports the claim that the publishing industry is mostly white.
- In the introductory paragraph, the major concern of the critics is conveyed in the line, "Critics of "American Dirt" claim its story makes mistakes in describing Mexican life and culture. The misrepresentation of Mexican culture in<em> "American Dirt" </em>can be accredited to the facts that Cummins is neither Mexican nor was the cultural research adequate.
- Michaela T. Glover is one of the interns at the United Negro College Fund internship program. The lines,<em> "The organization WeNeedDiverseBooks works with publishers and agents to recruit interns. The program began with five interns in 2015 and will likely place 15-20 this summer. Out of 44 interns, 39 have since graduated from college and 30 have found full-time work in publishing, according to the organization.
" </em>convey that the program is working to diversify the publishing industry.
- Tracy Sherrod conveys her publishing experience in the lines, "I first came into publishing in the 1980s and at that time it was believed that black people didn't read. That statement was made to me multiple times, so we've come a long way," she said. "We're growing as an industry, but there will be some growing pains." Tracy Sherrod believes that the industry is growing.
