Suppose you're writing a letter and you recall a word you'd like to use, but you don't know how it's spelled. if you wanted to look up the word in a dictionary, you should use any of the following techniques except

a. looking up the word as you think it's spelled.
b. using the first letter of the word and searching through all the entries under that letter.
c. looking up a related word that you can spell in search of clues.
d. writing the word the way you think it's spelled to jog your recall.

Which of the following questions could you ask in a discussion on vacation destinations to establish common ground?

Read the following passage "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if all the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important.what two central ideas in this story are most closely related? a. the importance of literature and the dangers of miningb. humankind's basic survival needs and independence c. the nature of learning and societal dysfunctiond. the powers of rumors and abuse of authority

The ancient greek poet. homer, is credited with writing the odyssey. however, scholars still debate whether homer wrote the entire epic. what is the main reason for this uncertainty? o some sections of the epic are written in different poetic styles and forms. most ancient greeks could not read or write, so the epic was first written in latin ob och storytellers repeated the epic aloud for centuries before it was ever written down. od the epic was a fictional account, so the identity of its author may have been fictionalized as well.