Question 1 of 20
2 points
read these lines from walt whitman's "song of myself":
the last scud of day holds back for me,
it flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the
shadow'd wilds,
it coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
i depart as air, i shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
i effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
what is one purpose of the simile in this poem?

the best sentence that shows the best placement for the modifier "on the ice" is the one which contains it in the end of the sentence or in its beggining followed by a comma, that indicates it works as adverbial, dislocated in the sentence.

the girl promptly slid on her rollers on the ice.

on the ice, the girl promptly slid on her rollers.

what are you talking about? ( could you provide more information )

10 is the correct answer, not 6.

the answer is direct