Read the excerpt from act i, scene i of romeo and juliet. benvolio: i do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, 50 or manage it to part these men with me. which is the best paraphrase of benvolio’s lines? i am a peacekeeper, so put your sword away and tell your men that they must leave. i cannot keep the peace, so hold your sword up and me get these men to stop. i am not interested in peace, so pull out your sword and fight these men with me. i want to keep the peace, so put your sword away or use it to me break up this brawl.

I want to keep the peace, so put your sword away or use it to help me break up this brawl.

Explanation:

This is the best paraphrase of Benvolio's words. In these lines, Benvolio states that he is simply interested in keeping the peace. Therefore, he asks the other person (which in this case is Tybalt) to put his sword away. If he does not want to, then he asks Tybalt to at least use it to help him stop the fight. However, Tybalt does not like this suggestion.

as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

explanation:

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.