Choose the group of sentences that best demonstrates sentence fluency. a. hopefully i will learn my lesson from breaking curfew again. i had to miss the school dance. i had to miss the school carnival. i think i will learn my lesson this time. b. instead of going to the school dance, i had to stay home because i broke my curfew. i had to miss the school carnival as well. hopefully i will learn my lesson this time. c. i am not allowed to go to the school dance because i broke my curfew. i missed the school carnival also. i will learn my lesson now. d. i broke curfew. i am not allowed to go to the school dance. i missed the school carnival also. i will now learn my lesson.

The group of sentences that best demonstrates sentence fluency is B. That is, your answer would be the following: "Instead of going to the school dance, I had to stay home because I broke my curfew. I had to miss the school carnival as well. Hopefully I will learn my lesson this time".

This is the case because the writer has chosen well-built constructions by using linking words to join sentences and sentence parts. For instance, the adverbs "instead" and "hopefully". They create semantic relationships between the sentences and therefore make the whole writing piece more fluently.

alone =having no one else present.

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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