Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Animal Farm. Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple. The horses carried it off in cart-loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share. By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs. What statement best identifies how the pacing in this passage contributes to the plot? a. Slow pacing allows suspense to build about the outcome of the building. b. Quick pacing allows a long process to be shown in a few sentences. c. A flashback reveals the reason for the work. d. Foreshadowing to future events gives readers insight into the consequences of the windmill.

Ead the passage from "marriage is a private affair” by chinua achebe. "i shall never see her,” was the reply. from that night the father scarcely spoke to his son. he did not, however, cease hoping that he would realize how serious was the danger he was heading for. day and night he put him in his prayers. nnaemeka, for his own part, was very deeply affected by his father’s grief. but he kept hoping that it would pass away. if it had occurred to him that never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue, he might have been less optimistic. "it has never been heard,” was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later. in that short sentence he spoke for all of his people. this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke when news went round about his son’s behaviour. by that time the son had gone back to lagos. "it has never been heard,” said the old man again with a sad shake of his head. "what did our lord say? ” asked another gentleman. "sons shall rise against their fathers; it is there in the holy book.” "it is the beginning of the end,” said another. how does this passage reinforce the traditional social hierarchy? the older men in the village tell okeke that he should respect nnaemeka’s decision. the older men in the village console nnaemeka about okeke’s attitude toward his choices. the older men in the village commiserate with okeke regarding nnaemeka’s decision to disobey him. the older men in the village think that nnaemeka should be optimistic that okeke will accept his decision.

When the subject of a sentence performs the action in the sentence the verb in the sentence is in the what ?

Which of the following best describes the proper use of a "works cited" page? (a)-a works cited page is not needed if you paraphrase your research. (b)-a works cited page is not needed if you use signal phrases. (c)-a works cited page is optional when writing a researched text. (d)-a works cited page is required when writing a researched text.