Vocab words: bureaucratic, officious, callous, aspersion, viscosity, ecstasy, rue, surreptitiously, impugn, and provincial Write 5 complex sentences, each using 2 vocab words. (Complex sentences contain one, or more, subordinate clauses.)

To become the mesmerizer’s subject, twain must displace hicks. twain presents himself as very different from hicks. based on this contrast, what does twain seem to value and admire in a person ?

12 3 4 5 in general, modifiers should be placed close to the words they modify. true false

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.