Read this passage from "The City Without Us" by Alan Weisman: The weeds are followed by the city's most prolific exotic
species, the Chinese ailanthus tree. Even with 8 million
people around, ailanthus-otherwise innocently known as
the tree-of-heaven-are implacable invaders capable of
rooting in tiny chinks in subway tunnels, unnoticed until
their spreading leaf canopies start poking from sidewalk
grates. With no one to yank their seedlings, within five
years powerful ailanthus roots are heaving up sidewalks
and wreaking havoc in sewers.
Which statement best explains how irony is used in the passage?

Read and key the following paragraph. 1"the final phase of franklin's public service is themost spectacular. 2after his return to america he waselected to the second continental congress and served withjefferson and john adams on the committee which drafted thedeclaration of independence. 3then, in 1776, he wasappointed one of the three commissioners to seek military andnaval assistance from france. 4for nearly ten years pariswas his center of operations, and, in large part because ofhis personal popularity, he secured the much-needed supportof france and spain and eventually negotiate thetreaty of paris (1783), by which england recognized americanindependence. 5when he returned to america in 1785 he wasold and ill, yet he found strength to serve as a delegate tothe constitutional convention, and to continue his work withmany humanitarian and scientific societies." type the key words for sentence's 2. 3. 4. 5.

In at least 150 words, identify and describe the setting, and the way the author uses imagery to describe it for part 1 of nectar in a sieve.

Which sentence uses all its nominative case pronouns correctly? a we live on the same street b them and rachel are good skaters. c the redskins fans in the family are fred and me d have joanne and him played tennis together before?