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Questions 10–17: Indicate whether the italicized verbal phrase in each of the following sentences is a gerund, participial, prepositional or infinitive phrase. 10. Teaching young children requires both skill and patience. 11. I enjoy reading historical novels. 12. To be accepted by that college was my chief ambition. 13. Going to work this morning, I saw an accident occur. 14. The fruit was left to ripen on the tree. 15. Pushing like mad, we finally opened the door. 16. The bottle of juice went rolling under the living room couch. 17. The fog blanketed the ground and reached across the entire pond.

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

Which bibliography entry is written correctly and completely? a. johnson, marie. the solar age. chicago: energy options press, 2014. b. front page story. houston chronicle. 5 apr 2013. c. “will solar work? ” science news. march edition. d. friends of solar. mother earth society, accessed 15 jan 2014.

The greenberg article gives praise to marshall while the informational text does not