Larry was born in August. He'd have been twenty-seven this month. And his tree blows down". (page 10 lines 28-29) )1 ( says these lines to )2( who's sitting in the (3), reading the Sunday )4(. Frank is Keller's (5) and has come over to say hello. Another neighbor, )6(is also sitting in the yard reading. The tree that the speaker is talking about was (7)down by the )8( the night before. The tree was planted in memory of )9(who had been a (10) in the war. Frank remembers Larry's birthday because he's preparing his )11( at the request of (12), who seems to )13( to accept the fact that her son is (14) .

Which three of the following choices are advantages of using active voice a) engages readers b) less wordy c) conceals the subject d) less confusing e) object acted on is given importance

Auto = self crat/cracy = rule dem = people which sentence used the underlined word correctly?

Read this excerpt from wheels of change by sue macy.that said, it's hard to grasp the full extent of the bicycle's impact on americans in the late 19th century—particularly female americans. imagine a population imprisoned by their very clothing; the stiff corsets, heavy skirts, and voluminous petticoats that made it difficult to take a deep breath, let alone exercise. add to that the laws and social conventions that cemented a man's place as head of the household and holder of the purse strings. how suffocated women must have felt. and how liberated they must have been as they pedaled their wheels toward new horizons.what is the central idea of the excerpt