(1) dolores was my mother's close friend. (2) we thought that she came to our house just to be with us kids. (3) for us, a visit from dolores meant hours of undivided attention. (4) she read stories and worked on puzzles with us. (5) she got us started collecting rocks and even us how to count in spanish. (6) one day, we asked dolores if she had any children of her own. (7) "yes, i do," she replied with a smile, "but they're all grown up. (8) it's a good thing i have you! " in sentence 2, which word does the adverb just modify? a. thought b. came c. us d. kids

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. david sedaris's essay "our perfect summer" appeared in the june 16, 2003, issue of the new yorker. match each element of sedaris's essay to an element of a narrative essay. tiles time setting plot geographical setting conflict characters pairs the writer and his mother had always talked about the family buying a second home like the rich people they knew. the writer grew up in raleigh, north carolina, and his emerald isle in the summers.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky

How does mercutio, in romeo and juliet, convey his anger before dying?