Read the sentences from a student's essay about "the treasure of lemon brown."

greg doesn't see eye to eye with his dad at the beginning of the story. he has different ideas from his dad about what is important in life.

how should these sentences be rewritten to clarify the student's ideas?

greg and his father don't get along very well in the beginning of the story. greg is unhappy with his dad because he doesn't
think that school is as important as other things in life, and his dad is unhappy because he wants greg to work harder.

greg and his father fight a lot in the beginning of the story. greg feels upset because he wants to play sports, and he doesn't
understand why his dad is so hard on him about school.

there is a lot of conflict in the beginning of the story because greg and his dad argue a lot. the scorpions are important to
greg, while having greg do well and study is important to greg's father.

there is a lot of conflict between greg and his father at the beginning of the story. greg is focused on playing basketball for
the scorpions, and he doesn't understand why his father lectures him about the importance of doing well in school.

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a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.  

answer: b) bubbling its way

explanation: an adjective is a word or a group of words that modifies a noun (name, thing, place,

in this case, the first option "to heartily enjoy" isn't describing or modifying any noun, the third option "hiking along merrily" is describing an action but it doesn't modify any noun, the last option "beside us" is just a preposition that indicates position, so the correct answer is the second one: "bubbling its way" because it is modifying the noun "stream".