Retype these sentences, making them smoother by changing the parts that are in parentheses when i was, (oh, around) eight years old, i thought it would be fun to learn to play the piano. my parents agreed to purchase a piano. they told me that i would be required to practice one hour a day, (due to the fact that) piano lessons were expensive. at first, i practiced piano for two hours each day, (with the result that) i progressed very rapidly. every day for two years i raced home (when) school (was done) and practiced the piano with great enthusiasm. then one day, something happened. i decided i liked baseball better than the piano. though i can play the piano rather well (at the present time) , i do not practice as long nor as diligently as i once did.

When I was about eight years old, I thought it would be fun to learn to play the piano. My parents agreed to purchase a piano.

The told me that i would be required to practice one hour a day because piano lessons were expensive. At first, I pracitced piano for two hours a day, therefore I progressed very rapidly.

Every day for two years I raced home after school and practiced the piano with great enthusiasm.

Then one day, something happened. I decided I liked baseball better than the piano. Though I can still play the piano rather well, I do not practice as long nor as diligently as I once did.

a. it reminds protestors of the reasons they have to protest.

in my opinion i think it was not excessive at all. the maids turned against the queen in his absence, how could he ever trust them again? if he let them go they would surely spread the news of the suitor's deaths, which is much too risky. as for the suitors, they were selfish, rude, and greedy. the god's had apparently marked them for death, meaning odysseus made their death come faster.