Answer all and I will give brainless 1) Which of the nouns is the direct object in the following sentence?
The builder renovated the house at the end of the cul-de-sac.
2) Identify the nouns that function as the subject and also as the direct object in the following sentence:
Mark and Joseph ferociously painted the house so that it would be ready to sell before Saturday.
3)Which words in the following sentence are singular nouns?
My uncle brought extra chairs to the picnic so that our family had enough places to sit down.
4)Which words in the following sentence are plural nouns?
Thomas bought three different cameras from the electronic stores that he visited on Saturday.
5)Correct the following sentence below by correcting the nouns that should be possessive:
The puppy collar was bright red, and it said Jenny's dog on the tag.
6)Correct the following sentence below by making the nouns possessive that show ownership:
Mr. Roberts class read J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets at the end of the day.
7)Correct the following sentence below by making sure that the possessive nouns show ownership:
While the class was watching the children's horses at the farmer show, they noticed that the horse's stalls were perfectly clean.

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)