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In “Rules of the Game,” an excerpt from her 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan examines an early part in the development of a Chinese-American girl named Waverly Jong and her relationship with her Chinese immigrant mother. Tan presents events in chronological order; nonetheless, she varies the pacing of the action in order to create tension and add meaning to the story.
"Rules of the Game" opens with exposition; six-year-old Waverly is on a typical shopping trip with her mother. Tan describes Waverly’s family, home, and surrounding environment. These rich and quickly-presented details are important for understanding Waverly’s relationship with her mother and her life as an American-born Chinese girl growing up in San Francisco Chinatown.
Tan then slows down the narrative to focus on the object that changed Waverly’s life: her brother’s chess set. The author describes exactly how the chess set came into Waverly’s life: it was a Christmas charity gift from their church. She...
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The correct answer should be revere.
To revere means to regard with great respect, to show devotion to something, to honor someone.
The whole department meets every Thursday afternoon for two hours. There are twelve people in our department. All the people in our department are hard workers. Everyone comes in early and leaves late. We are all overworked. Nobody ever complains about the amount of work there is do. But nobody works hard enough to please Constance, our boss. Nobody has ever seen her smile. Nobody has ever heard her say anything complimentary to anyone. When Constance enters the room, everybody stops talking.
The are spelling, homophones, comas and capitalization errors.
A. it is not a complete thought.
A sentence is not only a subject + verb. It should complete your thought in the sentence. So a sentence should be: subject + verb + complete thought.
8 July 1497
On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon. The distance traveled in the journey around Africa to India and back was greater than around the equator.