Which sentence below correctly uses an apostrophe to create a contraction? a.
Let’s rent a couple of kayaks and paddle over to the island for a picnic.

b.
Gram and Gramps always wanted to take a cruise.

c.
Gingy couldn't reach the dropped oar, and soon the rowboat had drifted into the middle of the lake.

d.
The rescuers were unable to see the sinking ferry in the fog, but they could hear the desperate shouts of its passengers.

Read the sentence: though margo moved as slowly as a snail in the morning, she somehow ended up being the shining star at the corporations breakfast meeting. which phrase from the sentence is an example of the authors use of simile? a) being the shining star b) somehow ended up c)the corporations breakfast meeting d)moved as slowly as a snail

2read this passage from "the raven." what is puzzling the speaker in this stanza? 60% but the raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, straight i wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door then, upon the velvet sinking, i betook myself to linking fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- what this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking "nevermore." s and what the raven's message is why the raven came to visit where the raven came from how the raven got into his room

Nthe final analysis, the government has not done enough to protect the endangered species of the rain forest. in the passage above, the transition in the final analysis is used to