Bonus Questions: In the following sentences, replace one or more words with words that are more precise. Then rewrite the sentences to include the more precise language.

1: Oscar started freaking out about the test.

2: When the cops arrived, the crook ran outside.

8: The family chilled by the pool all afternoon.

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Select the answer with parallel structure. a. my family went on vacation to relax, fish and do some camping.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.

How do you think the political and social strife of england influenced jonathan swift ? how were these problems connected to reason