Read the paragraph.

[1] tia and jackie are partners in science class. [2] they have a big project to complete and are having trouble agreeing on an idea. [3] jackie would prefer to study geology, but tia is more interested in human biology. [4] ultimately, they decides to study fossilization.

which sentence has a subject-verb agreement error?

American history (is, are) studying the american colonies.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

According to the speaker, decisions in west african villages are made through discussions led by heroic nobles wise historians elected representatives appointed chiefs