Directions: Make corrections to the sentences below. 1. We all swum at the beach yesterday.
2. They hadn't scarcely enough feed for their cattle.
3. The cow has trod on my sweet peas.
4. The perfume is for your sister and yourself.
5. My father has laid in bed all day.
6. Mother has lain the book down somewhere.
7. Have you read where there was an earthquake in
China?
8. A bus runs passed our house.
9. Neither Peter or James can sing well.
10. He drove fast so as he might arrive early.

. a function is a relation in which each input has only one output. in the relation , y is a function of x, because for each input x (1, 2, 3, or 0), there is only one output y. x is not a function of y, because the input y = 3 has multiple outputs: x = 1 and x = 2.

main idea: it is important to prepare today for the needs of tomorrow.

the grasshopper was dying due to hunger, and this was because he didn't prepare for the winter.

the ants told the grasshopper, "if you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."

the ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime.

o'henry used irony in "the gift of the magi". this tool was essential to developing the story's theme by showing that the couple bought gifts for each other that they could not actually use at the moment. in addition, the author used this fact to show that people of the society should treasure the things they've received from others, because you may never know if they sacrificed their most treasured possession to aquire the gift.