Select the grammatically correct use of an absolute phrase from the following sentences. the school bus drove over the hill, its lumbering yellow form full of raucous students. the school bus drove over the hill its lumbering yellow form full of raucous students. the school bus drove over the hill, and its lumbering yellow form full of raucous students. the school bus drove over the hill; its lumbering yellow form full of raucous students.

Read the sentence. on days when i go jogging in the morning, my mind seems to process ideas faster, and my mood is more positive. how does the underlined clause add variety and meaning to the sentence? select two options. it describes the days being discussed. it makes readers want to go jogging. it creates a compound-complex sentence. it adds detail about the speaker's personality. it explains why jogging is beneficial.

Which information would the reader know if the mother were the narrator? select each correct answer. what the father thought about his wife's involvement in politics

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.