Choose the clearest and most effective revision of the following sentence..
ready to give her speech, the woman stepped up to the microphone holding her note cards..

a. holding her note cards, the woman stepped up to the microphone ready to give her speech..
b. the woman stepped up to the microphone holding her note cards ready to give her speech..
c. the woman stepped up to the microphone ready to give her speech holding her note cards..
dready to give her speech, the woman holding her note cards stepped up to the microphone

Which is the best paraphrase of the passage? a.)it’s always cloudy where the men of winter live. b.)it’s always misty where the men of winter live. c.)it’s always dark where the men of winter live. d.)it’s always sunny where the men of winter live. read the passage from the odyssey - elpenor. by night our ship ran onward toward the ocean's bourne, the realm and region of the men of winter, hidden in mist and cloud. never the flaming eye of helios lights on those men at morning, when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven; ruinous night being rove over those wretches.

How do you think the political and social strife of england influenced jonathan swift ? how were these problems connected to reason

Which choice is a major detail from paragraph two? a) the great wall is a large network of several walls and towers. b) the great wall looks like a long wall snaking its way across china. c) the great wall was constructed over hundreds of years beginning in 221 b. c. d) the great wall construction encouraged several independent kingdoms to unite.