25. Who is Benvolio? * A. a young man who asks Juliet's father for her hand in marriage
B. the peacemaker and Romeo's friend
C. the ruler of Verona who warns the Capulets and Montagues to stop fighti
D. Romeo's good friend who is killed by Tybalt

B. the peacemaker and Romeo's friend

Explanation:

Benvolio is the nephew of Lord Montague and Romeo's cousin. Benvolio serves as an peacemaker in the play who is unsuccessful in peacemaking and prevent violence between the Capulet and Montague families. Benvolio is clear-thinking, reliable, peace loving, caring, respectful, trustworthy and responsible young man in the play but will fight if he is pushed to far. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet story, Benvolio was a little trouble minded young man.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.