Complete the following for each sentence below: Step 1: Put parentheses around all. of the prepositional phrases. Be sure to start with the preposition itself and then include the word or words that go with it. Remember that the subject and the predicate of a clause will NOT be found in a prepositional phrase.
Step 2: Highlight (using the Microsoft Word function) any dependent clauses. Some sentences have more than one. The best way to begin is to look for the dependent words (when, since, that, because, after..) and be sure they are followed by subjects and verbs.
Step 3: Make the subjects bold and underline the simple predicates in BOTH the independent and dependent clauses.
Example: Before she established her apiary, Tanesha learned what kinds (of flowers) grew (in the area).
1) When the dog started barking at the front door, Boris knew that his package had arrived.
2) A note that Olga wrote for her high school crush was hidden in the spine of her favorite novel.
3) Since we ordered a pizza yesterday, I think that we should eat vegetables today.
4) The smoke alarm went off because Malik burned the toast that he was making for breakfast.
5) It has been said that the ghost of the old woman always appears in the mirror at the end of the hallway at the stroke of midnight.

In another country by ernest hemingway (excerpts) excerpt 1 "in the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. it was cold in the fall in milan and the dark came very early. then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. there was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. the deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind turned their feathers. it was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains." excerpt 2 "the people hated us because we were officers, and from a wine-shop someone called out, "a basso gli ufficiali! " as we passed. another boy who walked with us sometimes and made us five wore a black silk handkerchief across his face because he had no nose then and his face was to be rebuilt. he had gone out to the front from the military academy and been wounded within an hour after he had gone into the front line for the first time. they rebuilt his face, but he came from a very old family and they could never get the nose exactly right. he went to south america and worked in a bank. but this was a long time ago, and then we did not any of us know how it was going to be afterward. we only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it any more." 19 select the correct answer. what important fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "in another country" by ernest hemingway? a. it establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically. b. it shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions. c. it establishes the wounded soldiers’ determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover. d. it shows the wounded soldiers’ sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect. e. it shows the wounded soldiers’ belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals. reset next

Examine the imagery in these lines of the poem "the legend" by garrett hongo. he is asian, thai or vietnamese, and very skinny, dressed as one of the poor in rumpled suit pants and a plaid mackinaw, dingy and too large. he negotiates the slick of ice on the sidewalk by his car, opens the fairlane's back door, leans to place the laundry in, and turns, for an instant, toward the flurry of footsteps and cries of pedestrians as a boy—that's all he was— backs from the corner package store shooting a pistol, firing it, once, at the dumbfounded man who falls forward, grabbing at his chest. how does the imagery in these lines affect the reader’s experience of the poem? check all that apply. it creates a visual picture of the man. it conveys what the scene sounds like. it describes the actions of the boy. it reveals the poet’s opinion of the characters. it encourages readers to care for the characters. it shows the resolution of a conflict. it explains the reasons for the event.

Based on its prefix, which is the correct definition of “impersonal”? not personal between persons someone who takes something personally someone who has a certain personal quality