Read the paragraph. My dad must travel a lot for work. Some weeks, he drives more than 100 miles a day! He uses our family car for this travel and pays for all the necessary gas, maintenance, and repairs himself. Luckily, my dad receives a monthly travel allowance from his employer that helps with these costs.

What is the most likely meaning of allowance?

a payment one makes each month to receive a service

a regular amount of money one is paid to cover expenses

a donation of money one gives in appreciation

a bonus one receives from an employer for excellent work

Which quotation best expresses a major theme of this speech? "i saw my evil day at hand. the sun rose dim on us in theo morning, and at night is sunk in a dark cloud, and looked likea ball of fire.""i am much grieved, for i expected, if i did not defeat you, too hold out much longer, and give you more trouble before ! surrendered."m"we went to our great father. we were encouraged. hiso great council gave us fair words and big promises, but wegot no satisfaction.".**we told them to let us alone; but they followed on andbeset our paths, and they coiled themselves among us likethe snake."

Which of these sentences uses parallel structure

One conclusion that a reader might draw from the excerpt from "there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella" is that the man with the umbrella is persistent in his mission. provide two details from the text to support this conclusion.