I would say that sometimes you would not 'identify' a mistake in your head. Also if you read it out loud you might realize how it does not make sense in your sentence.
Hope this helped!
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Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared.
Beneath Phoebe's stories Salamanca's own story and that of her mother, who left on April morning for Idaho, promising to return before the tulips bloomed. Sal's mother has not, however, returned, and the trip to Idaho takes on a growing urgency as Salamanca hopes to get to Idaho in time for her mother's birthday and bring her back, despite her father's warning that she is fishing in the air.
This richly layered novel is in turn funny, mysterious, and touching. Sharon Creech's original voice tells a story like no other, one that readers will not soon forget.
Plot : What is the sequence of events in the story?
Characters: What do we learn about the boy whom the story is about?
Point of View: Is the boy telling the story or is an outside narrator telling the story?
Theme: What does the author want us to learn from the story?
Setting: Where does the boy live?
Answer:
The mother has trouble communicating in english
Explanation:
The mother mistakes one word for another.
C. A teacher claims that student performance has gone down based on school - wide test results
