Read this sentence from "shooting an elephant":
the sole thought in my mind was that if anything went
wrong those two thousand burmans would see me
pursued, caught, trampled on and reduced to a grinning
corpse like that indian up the hill.
which connotation best matches the word grinning as it is used in this
excerpt?
o
a. bored and disconnected
d
b. happy and peaceful
o
c. ignorant and foolish
o
d. relieved and tranquil

Which change should be made to improve this sentence? allen jumped in the puddle and his new shoes got wet and muddy.a)the new shoes got wet and muddy and allen jumps in the puddle.b)allen jumped in the puddle and got his new shoes wet and muddy.c)allen jumped in the puddle and gets his new shoes wet and muddy.d)the new shoes are getting wet and muddy and allen jumped in the puddle.

Yosemite has spectacular scenery and which has half-time bears. how do i write i. parallel structure?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia