What effect does the word mountainous create in the following sentence? the store owner thought of the mountainous sum of money he had to pay back by the end of next year. a. it suggests that the store owner is annoyed with himself for having borrowed the money unnecessarily. b. it suggests that the store owner feels crushed by the excessive burden of the debt. c. it suggests that the store owner is tempted to use unfair means to avoid repaying the money. d. it suggest that the money will bring about a great change before the store owner pays it back.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

Why are the royals in the woods? a. they are hunting. c. they are drunk. b. they are celebrating the wedding. d. they are lost.

What is the central idea of this passage? when i was a kid