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1. comforting 
2. They give examples from their own lives. 
3. Most teachers lose sight of what is best for their students.
4. life
5. proficient speakers of English.
6. The sounds of English have become too familiar to him. 
7. their resentment toward their fathers for bad decisions that they made. 
8. wondering about the choices she has made and how they have affected her child. 
9. give the reader a sense of a sailor’s relationship to water.
10. to help readers understand the speaker’s wistful desire for liberty. 
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The biggest reasons the U.S. hasn't adopted the metric system are simply time and money. When the Industrial Revolution began in the country, expensive manufacturing plants became a main source of American jobs and consumer products.
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<span>Static-lacking in movement, action, or change, especially in a way viewed as undesirable or uninteresting.
It's saying the temperature was static till the wind blew. That means the temp stayed the same.</span>