PLEASE HELP! I HAVE AN ESSAY TO DO AND TWO CHAPTERS OF ENGLISH PLS HELP ME THANK YOU <3 I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST IF CORRECT !!! 1-Which of the following is the best definition of sentence combining?

a. Rewriting groups of short sentences in more interesting ways

b. Rewriting groups of simple sentences in your own words

c. Rewriting groups of complex sentences in more simplified forms

2- What is the point of sentence combining?

a. To improve your prewriting skills

b. To improve your risk-taking skills

c. To improve your revising and editing skills

3- Which of the following is a strategy for combining short sentences
into longer, more complex ones?
a. Focus on choppy sentences.

b. Repeat connecting words.

c. Delete repeated words.

4-Which of the following is not a good technique for exploring your
own style?
a. Vary the length and structure of your sentences.

b. Use consistent sentence patterns
.
c. Try using parallelism and interruption for emphasis
.
5-Which of the following can help improve your sentence-combining
skills?
a. Try out sentences on a partner.

b. Avoid comparing your writing with that of others so you won't
confuse your styles.

c. Concentrate on grammar, punctuation, and consistency.

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[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant