Read the excerpt from Homesick Blues."
Which statement describes how the narrator's grandfather
most likely feels about the city?
According to Grandpa, he could always pick out the city boy
trom a proup of farm boys because the city boy would be the
one in the way while the farm boys did the work. He had the
idea that those city boys thought they were too good to do
real work, and he referred to them as well. I can't say what
he called them because he taught me to never say such
wa Si Grandpa's tone always seemed light-hearted
when he talked about those days which made me wonder it
heint more disgust or more pity for those city boys.
The city is not as perfect as it seems.
The city is a magnificent place to live.
The city is extremely dangerous.
The city is very glamorous.

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

The words screaming and rushed in the passage suggest which tone in the story the metamorphosis a.) tense b.) positive c.) fun d.) formal