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O As an adult, Wright has a strong positive regard for his father and wants to get to know him.

O As an adult, Wright believes he will never fully accept the way his father treated him.

As an adult, Wright is disgusted with his father's ignorance and his flippant manner.

As an adult, Wright has a different perspective of his father than he did when he was a child.

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Which statement is an opinion? The Yankees are the best baseball team in history, Yankee stadium sells got dogs, Babe Ruth played for the Yankees or the Yankees play in the greater New York City area.

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Garrett was proud of his note-taking skills until he took a test on the Civil War in history class. He did very poorly even though he had written down everything the teacher said. Garrett chose not to summarize the information because he wanted to make sure he included all the facts.

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How do you account for the speakers silence at the end of i sit and look out by Whitman?

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How do you painlessly blind yourself overnight ... P. S I'm writing a story about a girl that makes herself go blind overnight.

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Langston Hughes's poem "Dreams" praises dreams, while "Dawn in New York" praises

the urban transportation systems.

the close friendships among coworkers.

the solitude of a morning routine.

the inspiration for urban architecture.

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Identify the italicized word.

Jack dropped the "ball".

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predicate

direct object

indirect object

predicate noun

predicate adjective

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What is the direct object in the sentence below.

I forgot to lend my moon boots to George O'Malley

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Jane is () upon learning that she and the Riverses are family?

- overjoyed

- saddened

- embarrassed

- confused

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Rylee Wilkerson

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Identify the structure of the following sentence.

My coach is a brilliant communicator, and he is respected even by our opponents.

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Simple sentence

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Compound-complex sentence

O Complex sentence

Compound sentence

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Reginald Daniel

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Read the sentence and answer the following question:

I would like to give you my thoughts on this organic gardening movement.

Which revision would make this sentence more precise?

a. I have doubts that organic gardening alone will reduce the use of pesticides.

b. I have some deep concerns about the movement to increase organic gardening.

c. I like the idea of organic gardening, but sometimes I am not so sure.

d. I would like to share my ideas and thoughts on the latest news on organic gardening.

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Read this line from The War of the Worlds:

That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars ...

What does the last stage of exhaustion imply about Mars?

The inhabitants have little physical strength left.

The inhabitants of Mars have become ancient.

The planet has moved farther away from the Sun.

The planet is nearing its last days.

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As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods: they kill us for their sport meaning

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Rephrase this sentence:

It has a sense of movement and body as curls its tail and looks up at us.

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How does the text structure the author uses in paragraph 17 make one moment particularly effective?

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