3 Complete the sentences with the correct past form of the verbs given.
1 My friend
(call) me at 11 o'clock
last night, just as I
(go) to bed.
2 I
(have) a terrible headache all
day - I
(take) three headache
tablets, but it won't go away.
3 When I
(look) out of my window
this morning, everything
(be) white
because it
(snow) all night.
4 I
(wait) to speak to the professor
for over two hours, but she still hasn't arrived.
5 I find university life difficult. I
(study) here for nine months, but I still
(not make) any close friends.
6 I couldn't open the door because I
(forget) to bring my key.
7 That dog is driving me mad. It
(bark) all morning!​

In julius caesar did portia use effective strategies when she tried to persuade brutus to tell her the truth?

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?