Read this sentence:
Students gave apples to their teachers in the old days. This was a sign of appreciation.
How can this sentence be rewritten so it is clearer?
A. As a sign of appreciation, students gave apples to their teachers in the old days.
B. Because students gave apples to their teachers in the old days, it was a sign of appreciation.
C. Students gave apples to their teachers in the old days, and this was a sign of appreciation.

Which sentence would not be appropriate for an essay or formal speech? a) most of the titles of faulkner's novels are references to the bible or to the works of william shakespeare. eliminate b) some critics believe that faulkner's novel the sound and the fury is the best novel of his entire career. c) the novels of william faulkner are way too hard to read, yo, filled with all these frustrating changing narrators! d) william faulkner traveled all the way from his home state of mississippi to sweden in order to make his nobel prize acceptance speech.

Write a line imitating the meter of the example (anapestic tetrameter.) and the beard/ on his chin/ was as white/ as the snow

What is the rhyme scheme in this excerpt from longfellow's, "the tide rises, the tide falls? " (10 points) the tide rises, the tide falls, the twilight darkens, the curlew calls; along the sea-sands damp and brown the traveler hastens toward the town, and the tide rises, the tide falls.