read this paragraph, rewrite it adding lively verbs and verbals, concrete nouns, and colorful adjectives and adverbs.

at dawn we followed a channel of the cook river west word towards pirimapun. around us with grasslands, palms, and sago thickets with lots of egrets, ducks, and geese. we scared them when we passed. above we saw fruit bats flying south like someone controlled them. they were tired. Now they would hide their heads inside the wings and sleep all day.

My cat and my dog like best friends

What do we know about the mother in “two kinds”? select all that apply. she came from china. she had two daughters who died. her mother, father, and first husband are dead. she is part japanese.

The basketball crashed against the backboard, and point guard sheena lunged for it. as she snatched the ball out of mid-air, the crowd cheered, chanting encouragement for her team, the monarchs. so far, the game had been a disaster. with 15 seconds left to go in the final quarter, the monarchs were 2 points shy of victory. what main idea do the details in the passage suggest? the point guard sheena was not a very good player. the monarchs had never lost a basketball game. the monarchs were worried about losing. the crowd was not supporting the monarchs.