Directions: Identify the underlined word as gerund (G), infinitive (I), participle (P) or verb (V). Fred wanted to lose the game, so he could get home.

The losing team put up a good fight.

No one enjoys losing.

The home team was losing at the half.

The contractors are painting the exterior today.

Painting is more than a hobby to Chad.

To paint the house will take more than just the two of us!

Have you seen my painting clothes?

Our meeting at the station was surprise.

Because she was late, Tina was unable to meet her new coworker.

Hayes was a member of the group meeting the plane.

You will be meeting many new people at camp.

Why are you reading that book?

Reading is my favorite thing to do Saturday morning.

Helga enjoys the reading club.

Eager to read, Martin flipped his book open quickly.

She whispered, “be quite” to the talkers during the move.

Mark was only able to whisper since he lost his voice.

The whispering child told her mother she was hungry.

In the darkness, all Mara heard was the whisper of her friend telling her to run!

Correct the sentence below: when looking for a new babysitter: i look for the following- experience, expertise, and a love for children. question 11 options: when looking for a new babysitter i look for the following- experience, expertise, and a love for children. when looking for a new babysitter i look for the following: experience, expertise, and a love for children. when looking for a new babysitter i look for the following experience, expertise, and a love for children. when looking for a new babysitter i look for: the following experience, expertise, and a love for children. correct the sentence below: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late he was right on time. question 12 options: correct as it is the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late, he was right on time. the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late; and he was right on time. the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late: he was right on time.

Which sentence best build the suspense

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”