A four-and-a-half-year-old is playing a game with her father. The rules say that each person picks up two cards and sees if they match. Then it is the other person's turn. The child picks up two cards and sees that they do not match. Then she picks up another card and smiles because she has a match. What is the father's best response? The father decides not to put emphasis on winning, as children this age are not ready for competition. The father decides to nip the behavior in the bud by placing the child in a one-minute time out. The father decides to monitor her playmates more carefully to learn where she is picking up bad habits. The father realizes that she is too young for games with rules and decides to put the game away until she is older.

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

(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.”)

Read the sentence and select the statement that best describes it. i should leave now. the sentence is complete. the sentence is missing a subject. the sentence has one dependent clause and one independent clause. the sentence is missing a predicate.