Years of research and demonstrate that traditional methods of grammar instruction simply do not work; one common complaint about grammar instruction from its lack of context-its reliance, for example, on abstract rules and examples. these stark examples clarify grammatical ideas; however, they fail to , including its grammar and punctuation, in action, in the real-life texts that . by incorporating the texts that students read or compose on their own, this lesson highlights the choice of the semicolon to create rhetorical effect in an audience, how one author uses the seemingly insignificant punctuation mark to his ideas and urges students to follow the model in their own writing; only by exploring language in context, written for a particular time and place, can students the subtle ways that punctuation affects meaning.

answer: tjjtujutd

explanation:

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read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war