Read the first paragraph from O. Henry’s story “The Gift of the Magi.”

“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent *imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.”

[*imputation of parsimony: accusation of stinginess]

Why did the author use this paragraph to open his story?

A.
It produces tension that foreshadows later events in the story.
B.
It slows the pace of the story so events do not proceed too quickly.
C.
It creates a conversational tone, as if someone were telling the story aloud.
D.
It reveals important information about one of the story’s important characters.

d. football allowed the narrator and his father to reconnect after his parents' divorce.

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.  

1. c. zone of saturation, water table, zone of aeration

2. c. condensation

3. b.   conservation and condensation

4. c. groundwater dips below the water table in an artesian well

5. d. oceans

6. c. geyser

7. d. groundwater

8. b. 70%

9. d. transpiration

10. c.   desalination