"When you put the last touches on our project, can you send it too Mr. Jones
and me?" Harriet asked Amy. Amy
agreed but she was frustrated because
she felt she had done the majority of the
work herself this always seemed to
happen to
her. There has been
many times when Amy
chose to work alone
on projects for this
reason. Which of the helping verbs need to be switch from singular to plural??

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.