[1] Toy poodles get a bad rap. [2] Although a little feisty, they are also exceptionally intelligent. [3] They are said to be one of the most trainable breeds around. [4] And here's something potential dog owners may not know: for their size, toy poodles are excellent guard dogs. [5] One toy poodle actually scared an intruder with it's angry barking. What is the BEST way to improve the sentence fluency in the paragraph? A. Make the tone consistent. B. Combine sentences 3 and 4. C. Vary the beginnings of the sentences. D. Add transition words to some sentences.

Which modifier is misplaced within the passage? choose the best answer. it took me longer than normal to walk to school today because i stopped to make a wish. i wished for happiness at the fountain. i'm not sure if my wish will come true, but i sure hope it does!

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Jeff's response to justin assumes that justin is following which maxim? justin: hey, jeff! jeff: yeah? justin: get ready for the news of the day! jeff: okay. justin: i got that job i was after! jeff: wow! that's great! justin: ! starts right now! later!