Question #24 In which sentence do the subject and verb agree? A. Richard and Jon hardly talks to each other.
B. Each of these balloons need to be blown up.
C. Several books were placed on the shelf.
D. There are only a single apple left.

C

Explanation:

The subject and verb agree on letter c. In the first and second ones, a plural subject is paired with a singular-subject verb, and vice versa for the fourth sentence, thus not agreeing.  I'm not sure if I helped, but I tried!

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

the central idea is basically saying that juveniles that have committed a crime will not have the same consequences as the   adults that have. they will have a softer punishment than what the adults have that is harsh in some ways.