On Shirley Abbott’s Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South (1998) Which of the following is most likely a deliberate exaggeration?
Select one:
a. “the water gushes milky and sulphurous’’ (lines 8-9)
b. “For a thousand years before him’’ (line 16)
c. “back rooms and dives in which no respectable person would be seen’’ (lines 38-39)
d. “women in silk suits . . . who owned stables of thoroughbreds’’ (lines 45-47)
e. “ninety kinds of hamburger stand’’ (line 57-58)

The most compelling and effective messages contain a variety of sentence patterns and avoid common sentence faults. you can create successful messages with sentence variety by understanding the four sentence types, controlling the length of your sentences, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and comma splices. identify the correct pattern of a complex sentence. an independent clause and a dependent clause one independent clause with a subject and a predicate verb two independent clauses joined by a conjunction, a semicolon, or a conjunctive adverb