Read the following paragraph from a speech: You may have noticed that the groundhogs of this area are
fewer in number than they used to be. I wondered about
this myself and began researching what might have
caused this decline. It turns out that the water supply the
groundhogs had relied upon in the past has been diverted
by the new shopping center a mile away. But all is not lost.
By petitioning your city council representative, you can help
persuade the city to fund a new water project to restore the
wetlands in this part of the town.

Which statement best explains why the final sentence is effective?

A. It establishes the speaker's personal credibility on the issue.

B. It asks the audience to play a role in solving a problem.

C. It identifies a problem and makes a connection to the audience.

D. It lends the paragraph a more positive tone.

"spring, the sweet " from summer's last will and testament spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king, then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing: cuckoo, jug-jug 1 , pu-we, to-witta-woo! the palm2 and may3 make country houses gay, lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe4 all day and we hear aye5 birds tune this merry lay6: cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! the fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, in every street these tunes our ears do greet: cuckoo, jugjug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! spring, the sweet spring! –thomas nashe jug-jug: sound of the nightingale palm: willow may: hawthorn pipe: play a shepherd's flute aye: always lay: song choose the sense that the poet appeals to in the last two lines of each stanza.

What was the main idea or message taught by the ballad, "king john and the abbot of canterbury"?

Read the passage. (1) the first skateboard was constructed of old roller-skate wheels attached to a piece of wood. (2) improvements were made to the skateboard in 1959. (3) the year that the first commercially made skateboard appeared. (4) soon after, skateboarding began to grow in popularity. (5) in 1963, skateboard manufacturers formed the first professional skateboarding team. (6) that same year, the first organized skateboard competition took place, in california. which is the most effective way to correct the fragment in sentence 3? attach the fragment to sentence 4. attach the fragment to sentence 2. insert the phrase in the united states to the end of the fragment. insert the verb had before the verb appeared.