Read the excerpt below from interview with marielle tsukamoto and answer the question that follows. question: what is one thing you would like everyone to know about japanese american internment?first, i would want everyone to know that all of us, the american citizens born in this country as well as our grandparents and parents who originally came from japan were innocent of any wrong. we were loyal americans. the fbi and military investigated all persons of japanese ancestry and found we were loyal americans. there was no single incident of any hint of treason or wrong. what would be an appropriate follow-up question to the excerpt? when did japanese internment occur? who was president at the time of japanese internment? why do you think innocent people were interned? in what country did japanese internment take place?

An appropriate follow-up question is: How did the American government justify the Japanese internment?

At the time of the events, Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the USA.

I think innocent people were relocated and incarcerated for revenge and war agitation after the Pearl Harbour attack, as well as for racial reasons.

The Japanese internment took place in the United States, and affected 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.

learning how to embrace the effects of colonialism is one of the central ideas of the play.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.