What is the author's purpose in this passage?

Mostly persuasive

Mostly explanatory

Slightly persuasive

Read the sentence. Sea turtles dig holes and lay eggs in the sand at night, covering the holes to protect the eggs from the sun and predators.

if illegal immigrants don't pay taxes, should they be allowed to send money back home to support their family?

Read this line. I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, Which does unrequited mean?

Which sentence is correctly punctuated? A. The room measured 20 ft. 6 in. in length. B The swimming pool is twenty-five feet long and thirty feet wide? C Brady and Louise walk in the park for twenty minutes each day?

Who says this? So he growled from his depths, hackles rising out their outrage. "Bear up, old heart! You've borne worse, far worse, that day when the Cyclops, man-mountain, bolted your hardy comrades down. But you held fast - " A. Athena B.

Paul and Henrietta are both aware of a mutual attraction between them. They talk before class each day, but mostly about how the class is going and what they think about the teacher. At which stage of relational escalation are they?

Anecdotal observation examples

Identify the correct sentence. After riding the car, I felt sick. A. imperative B. declarative C. interrogative D. exclamatory

How is the infinitive phrase used in the sentence? Their words were too muffled to be understood by the audience. A. noun B. adjective C. adverb

What was Phillis Wheatley's tone and diction in her letter and poem to General George Washington?