1) which sentence uses parentheses correctly? a) although lara was upset (her mother had never called), she still had a great birthday. b) matthew wanted to ask her out (he wanted to ask anyone out really but he lost his nerve. c) after years of training, daniel (finally ran the 100 mile race held each year in arizona. d) (when donald looked in the mirror) he saw a man who had aged ten years in only two years. (16points)

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explanation:

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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