Read the excerpt and answer the question. abigail: and mark this. let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and i will come to you in the black of some terrible night and i will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. and you know i can do it; i saw indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine and i have seen some reddish work done at night, and i can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! why does abigail threaten the other girls? a. to stop them from exposing her as a liar b. to make them afraid of native americans c. to scare them into confessing to witchcraft d. to convince them to accuse tituba of witchcraft

A. to stop them from exposing her as a liar

Explanation:

She wants them to believe that she knows withccraft and terrifies them into believe so to they won´t expose her as a liar, she wants them to be affraid of her so she can do as she wishes. Abigail wants to kill John Proctors wife, and she doesn´t want the girls to tell what happened in the forest, where she allegadelly drank a potion to kill proctor´s wife, so she threatens them so they won´t tell a thing.

the correct answer is A.- to stop them from exposing her as a liar

Explanation: Abigail says this to Mary and Betty . She shows how Abigail is so desperate to make sure no one finds out about her lies  thus developing her character.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the pronoun reference replaces a noun, but you have to make sure there's no room for confusion.

in the first sentence "her" could be referring to shely or to the sister. the answer there is "shelly called her sister and told her about the new baby."

in the second sentence "it" could be referring to the roof or the floor. the answer there is "since the roof leaks on the family room floor, we need to repair the roof."