Please help! Urgent!
1. What is the purpose of the bulleted list (lines 18-20) found early on in this article? (at least 2 purposes)
2.Using your own words, explain what the author means by her analogy of young writers and pitchers (lines 27-28). Critique the strength of his comparison. (Basically the pro and con of his comparison)
3. According to Freese, how is a writer’s voice formed? Explain using your own words as far as possible. (at least two ways a writer's voice is formed)
4. Synonym for excising (line 2) and captivating (line 40)
5. Wha tis the tone of the extract? Provide at least two examples that help develop the tone.
6. What do Freese and King have in common when it comes to studying grammar? Use text evidence from both Perspective 1 and Perspective 2 to support your response. (3 things in common and 3 text evidence)

new york state wildlife expert richard thomas found that a woodchuck could   chuck around 35 feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. thomas reasoned that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck an amount equivalent to the weight of the dirt, or 700 pounds.

exhausted word best describes the mood of the passage frink creates .

the correct answer is the following.

one of the groups i belong to is the boy scouts. this is a problem-solving group because it has tasks that we need to solve in order to other people in different activities such as the rescue of lost pets, or elder people in need.

the other group i belong to is kids pro environment, and is an information-sharing group that tries to create conscience about the risks and problems that generate pollution in our cities. we share information to other students and parents on the importance of keep our communities clean and our skies clear.  

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.