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In "there will come soft rains," why does the author turn the house into a mechanical creature? a. to stress how well run the future will be b. to keep readers from realizing at the start that no humans are present c. to stress how scientific advances can create the perfect society d. to compare the present with the earlier, non-mechanical times

What evidence could be used to support the authors'claims in this excerpt? select three options.- tweets (twitter messages) describing the overthrow ofben ali at the time it happened- verifiable facts that explain that social media haslittle effect on citizen journalism-speeches that give biographical accounts of the life andaccomplishments of mubarak-journal entries from a student describing how socialmedia him join a protest- quotations from experts on social media use duringuprisings within the arab world

Plz asap read this sentence from paragraph 3 of the article. the boys and girls are merely asked to obtain the signatures of ten friends or relatives. how does the word "merely" affect the meaning of the sentence? a- it suggests that asking people to subscribe to the washington times is something negative. b- it implies that obtaining ten signatures is not a requirement for receiving a prize. c- it downplays the fact that to win the prize, children must ask people to subscribe to the washington times. d- it emphasizes that children receive the prize only if they obtain ten signatures.