Identify the comma rule that the following sentence breaks:

in the early morning hours everything is silent and peaceful.

a) use a comma to separate three more items in a series.

b) use a comma and a conjunction to separate to complete thoughts.

c) use a comma to set off a phrase or clause at the beginning of a sentence.

d) use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives.

C) Use a comma to set off a phrase or clause at the beginning of a sentence.

Explanation:

The sentence consists of a phrase "In the early morning hours" and an independent clause "everything is silent and peaceful.". Whenever a sentence begins with a phrase or a dependent clause, a comma should be placed after that phrase or clause. The correct version of the sentence is the following:

In the early morning hours, everything is silent and peaceful.

The other options are incorrect because the sentence does not list three or more items in a series (A), the sentence does not have two complete thoughts but one: "everything is silent and peaceful" (B), and the adjectives "silent" and "peaceful" do not require a comma because they are already separated by the conjunction "and".

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)