Which sentence best supports the theme of the passage? a) a tough coach makes winning teams. eliminate b) asthma can keep athletes from playing well. c) it’s always better to be safe instead of sorry. d) fears can prevent people reaching potential. 1 austin reached into his backpack to make sure that it was there. he wasn’t sure he needed his inhaler, but he was checking just in case. his chest was tight as he once again attempted a deep breath. he completely filled his lungs and exhaled smoothly. he repeated this rhythm several times, surprised at the ease at which it came. but he’d keep the inhaler in his pocket. it had been a long time since he’d had a real asthma attack, since little league, in fact. but it was never too far from his mind, especially when he played baseball. 2 austin loved baseball, like fish love water, but he felt his asthma had probably kept him from reaching his full athletic potential. he knew today’s practice would be tough, for tomorrow was a big game. he was right. it was rough, and austin and several others weren’t at the top of their game today. coach tanner firmly patted austin’s shoulder as they headed for the dugout. “you’ve got to stop using it as a crutch, and let it go son.” coach said in a firm, low voice.

The unique structure of the opening lines of bart edelman’s poem “they shot wook kim” is meant to convey what main idea? select all that apply.

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Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)