Read the excerpt from "Nothing but Net.” On her walk to the park, Lydia looked at her neighborhood. It was a clear spring day. She watched the train as it rumbled by. The traffic was dotted with yellow taxis.

Isaac wants to make a text-to-self connection so he can visualize the setting. He can best connect with the excerpt by thinking about

different types of taxis he has seen.
the trains he has traveled on.
the problems that traffic causes.
what his neighborhood looks like.

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?

Which sentence contains correct capitalization? in “the rime of the ancient mariner,” the albatross was initially an omen of good luck. in “the rime of the ancient mariner,” the albatross was initially an omen of good luck.

Biologists recognize five levels of cell organization. the lowest and simplest is the cellular level. organisms here are either unicellular organisms, like protozoa, or colonial organisms. colonial organisms are composed of single-celled individuals that stay together to sustain the life of the whole colony. next on the scale of complexity is the level occupied by tissue. a tissue is a group of similar cells which perform a similar activity. tissues that are organized around a common function together make up an organ, the third level of complexity. the fourth level of organization is the system, formed by a group of organs which together perform a specific bodily process. the fifth and highest level is the organism level, in which body systems work together in a structure capable of independent life. main idea: