Which of the following sentences is written correctly? a. a delicious dish that was sweating from the intense heat was made by the chef. b. sweating from the intense heat, a delicious dish was crafted by the chef. c. the chef, sweating from the intense heat, quickly crafted a delicious dish. d. quickly crafting a delicious dish, a chef, sweating from the intense heat.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." but she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers. which best describes the underlying tone of the excerpt created by the connotations of the words “soft,” ”luxurious,” “glisten,” and “serpent-like”? 1. gloom 2. temptation 3. forgiveness 4. suspicion

Which sentence contains a punctuation error? a. have you met my great-aunt marie raines? b. my mother wrote three children's books about the family farm. c. my sister's mother in law lives with them, and everyone gets along fine. d. another hurricane is brewing in the mid-atlantic.