THIS IS URGENT!!! IT'S FOR A TEST Rewrite the sentences to correct the error--either a misplaced modifier, a squinting modifier, a dangling modifier, or an instance of faulty parallelism.

1. Knowing his tendency to oversleep and because he needed to be on time, Paul bought an alarm clock.

2. After mopping the floor, the house was ready for guests.

3. The general told his orderly before the battle he could go on leave.

4. We kept an extra rack for the stove in the closet.

5. Our driving instructor taught us to confidently but not aggressively drive.

Nature is a recurring theme in early american literature. what view of nature does phillis wheatley provide in "an hymn to the evening"

Identify the sentence in which the underlined word or words are punctuated incorrectly. a) pam was (well prepared) for the debate. b) she had (read three quarters) of the material more than once. c) she has always been (self assured). d) the winner needs a (two-thirds) majority of the votes.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt