Choose from the list of formal expressions provided to replace the informal terms in the following passage. 
formal expressions:   fail; going to; received; am not; earned; because; accept; would like; make more effort; improve.
yesterday, i  got  my report card.  i  got  a c in algebra.  i  ain’t  happy with my grade, so i’m gonna try harder.  i  want  to  get better  next semester,  cause  i can’t  take  it when i  bomb.

What is the key similarity between the characters of gerasim and vladimir ivanich in tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

Which elements are important to include in the conclusion of an argumentative editorial? check all that apply