Contrast the characters in this excerpt from Act I, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet: This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile.
We must talk in secret: nurse, come back again;
I have remember’d me, thou’s hear our counsel.
Thou know’st my daughter’s of a pretty age.

Nurse: Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.

Lady Capulet: She’s not fourteen.

Nurse: I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth—
And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four—
She is not fourteen.

What does this passage convey about these two characters?

A. Nurse wants to build a stronger relationship with Lady Capulet.
B. Nurse resents Lady Capulet’s great wealth and power.
C. Lady Capulet is jealous of Nurse’s strong love for Juliet.
D. Lady Capulet is Juliet’s mother but Nurse knows Juliet best.

Is "they" an unstressed or stressed syllable?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

This is a set of words that begins with a preposition.