Write the past or the past participle of the verb in parentheses to complete the sentence.

1. the vikings a variety of countries (go)
2. we haven't like it (see)
3. they prisoners. (catch)
4. we have to see the exhibit. (drive)
5. the vikings ships. (build)
6. last ones to leave the museum. (be)
7. we had listen to the lecture. (choose)
8. expert on vikings. (become)

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Why does the author of lifeboat ethics choose to begin his essay with this lifeboat metaphor

Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. however, because soil quality is poor, farms thrive only in places that receive more than 20 inches of rain annually. a. simple b. complex c. compound d. compound-complex