Choose the BEST way to improve the paragraph. Bats are flying animals. They are not birds, as some people might think. They are not reptiles
or insects, either. They are actually mammals, which means they are more like cows than birds.
That might be hard to believe when you look at a bat, but it is entirely true.
Change sentence 1 so that it is shorter.
Change sentence 5 so that it is sentence 1.
Change sentence 5 so that it is two sentences.
Change sentences 2, 3, and 4 so that they start with different words.

Which of the following arguments uses a non sequitur fallacy? a. if we allow students to wear caps to school, soon we'll have to let them wear gang colors. b. you should vote for sylvia for class president because everyone else on the squad is voting for her. c. regulations on motorists should be lifted because factories are a bigger source of pollution. d. the gray wolves of winter falls park should be protected because they need our support.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Which phrase best defines “quotations”