Write a 5-sentence description of something around you.  it can be a shoe, a backpack, the top of a desk, etc.  then go back and revise it so that each one of the sentences uses a different sense (smell, taste, hearing, touch, and sight.)

What is one way that the author makes a distinction between the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental passenger flights in 1936

Grammar: sequence of verp tenses quiz active the is used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

Excerpted from "the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! look carefully at the lines above. a poem with this particular rhyme scheme is best read a. line by line. b. with long pauses. c. phrase by phrase. d. with a strong rhythm.