Read the passage from an argumentative essay. (1) it's no wonder students' grades drop when they enter high school. (2) they are suffering various effects of sleep deprivation. (3) they cannot focus, they fall asleep in class, and they often forget what they have read or heard. (4) they may even hallucinate. how should sentence 3 be revised to clarify relationships among ideas? by connecting it to sentence 2 with "so" by connecting it to sentence 4 with "and" by adding "in addition" to the beginning of the sentence by adding "specifically" to the beginning of the sentence answer is d

by adding "Specifically" to the beginning of the sentence

Adding specifically is the best choice because in sentence 2 the author states that students are "suffering various effects of sleep deprivation". Sentence 3 clarifies what those specific effects of sleep deprivation are. So would not be an effective addition as it indicates a cause and effect relationship which is not what is happening from sentence 2 to 3. And could be a good answer, but the words "may even" already connect hallucinations to sentence 3 so it isn't needed to clarify the relationship between 3 and 4. In addition is not an effective solution because the list of effects is not in addition to what was in sentence 2.

D.

Explanation:

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

the flighty purpose never is o'ertook / unless the deed go with it"