Which of the following options best describes the author's purpose in writing the excerpt?
O
A.
to provide an informative overview of Honolulu's plant life
B. to persuade residents of large cities to consider planting
more trees and flowers
C. to illustrate how different Honolulu is from cities the reader
may be more familiar with
D.
to reflect on the way that large cities like Honolulu destroy
any natural beauty a place may have once had

How to combine the two sentences in bold.

The true confessions of charlotte doyle and "jonah and the whale" have which theme in common?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.