Rewrite the following sentences, shifting unclear modifiers to their correct places. 1. jane and jim only have one child. 2. she merely went to new york to see her editor. 3. last month he almost got enough speeding tickets to lose his license. 4. she’s so lazy, she won’t even pick up the phone when she’s sitting next to it. 5. kevin had scarcely walked one block when he remembered he had left his lunch at home. questions 6-12: choose the correct word in each of the following sentences. 6. despite what the expiration date says, this milk tastes bad/badly. 7. trevor felt very bad/badly about giving me the wrong book. 8. my sister is very talented but she draws bad/badly. 9. for the last few years, she had slept bad/badly. 10. the paint brush spread the paint well/good. 11. since taking the vitamins, my friend says she feels well/good. 12. my uncle max’s homemade spaghetti sauces tastes well/good. questions 13-15: read the following sentences and rewrite each one to be correct. 13. mr. juarez gave me the most simplest directions to the recreation center. 14. my mother is the older of her three sisters. 15. i am more outgoing than any student in my class

"character is what you are in the dark." dwight lyman moody, in this very witty quotation of his, states we act and think differently when we are "in the dark", that is, when the spotlight is not on us and everyone can see us and consequently judge us. when reading, we tend to be sympathetic to some characters and their dilemmas. by being so, we are saying to ourselves that we agree with those characters' acts and choices, even if they are morally questionable if we have common sense in mind. dwight lyman moody's quotation applies very well to "crime and punishment", by   19th century russian writer fiodor dostoyevsky. raskolnikov, the main character, a former law student who spends his days reflecting upon life and its misery, draws a fatal conclusion: mankind is divided in two main categories: ordinary and extraordinary people. the first are the ones who lead a run-of-the-mill existence and are full of imperfections; the latter are the ones who are spiritually superior, the ones who always know better, and have the right to judge the ordinary ones, as well as eliminate them if for common good. raskolnikov considers himself as belonging to the extraordinary category and decides to kill an old lady who is a money lender and in whose house he rents a small room. raskolnikov compares himself to napoleon, who had the undeniable right to execute tons of people during the war in order to save his nation. of course what the main character decides to do is a horrendous crime, but as readers we feel it is the right thing for him to do, since the victim is a mean old woman who only thinks about money and keeps humiliating her younger sister. what one experiences is a mixture of sympathy and empathy for the character, even though he decides to commit homicide, which is not at all accepted or tolerated by civilized citizens. however, since readers are "in the dark", they allow themselves to feel in ways they would probably never dare to confess to anyone, no matter how nasty or vicious a character can be. after all, they are just reading and doing no harm. in other words, readers are in the dark and can be who they are without being judged.

a. by showing how a character reacts to or interacts with his or her   surroundings

explanation:

the setting reveal information about a character by showing how a character reacts to or interacts with his or her   surroundings.

i belive the answer is b given there isnt much information

answer :

the idiom "pride goes before a fall" means that being too proud causes one to make mistakes that eventually lead to failure or downfall.

in the stranger's story in the "the storyteller," bertha had won three medals for obedience, punctuality and good manners. she was really proud of her medals and pinned them to her dress and wore them everywhere she went so that everyone would know how good she was. in the end, these symbols of her excessive pride cost her her life. when she was hiding from the wolf in the bushes, it was the clinking of her medals that alerted his attention towards her presence and lead to her death.