Foreign languages are extremely important to students' education. after taking my first spanish course, i saw a significant increase in my english grade. as a student in spanish, i learned how to form verbs and verb phrases in that language. learning about verbs and verb phrases in a different language gave me a different perspective about the same parts of speech in english. this new knowledge made english class much easier, and i received good grades in both classes last year. learning foreign languages students in many different subjects. ian wrote a argumentative speech to convince the school board to adopt more foreign language classes at his school. do the examples from this part of ian's speech support his position? a) no, because they do not give a detailed explanation of the benefits
b) yes, because they explain specifically how the classes him
c) yes, because they state that ian took a spanish class
d) no, because they do not give specific information

Consider the last two lines of the poem again. why do you think the old woman sees herself as a terrible fish? why did she choose to compare her to a fish? why do you think she chose to use the word "terrible"? write your answer in two hundred words.

Read sentence 13 from the draft. some plants retain a great deal of their foliage through much of the spring and summer, but the leaves do not retain their green color for long. which detail would be best to add after sentence 13 to develop the topic? a. since the green color of the leaves that are bright and abundant during the warmer months will disappear by the time it is fall, it is important that the leaves are trimmed and kept freshly cut so that they will last for as long as possible. b. while the temperature outside may dictate when the fall colors of leaves appear, it is only one of many environmental factors that play a part in the changing of colors from green leaves to fall-colored leaves during the cooler months. c. if people want to enjoy the green color of leaves longer, trees should be planted where the environment is warmer and the days longer because chlorophyll in the leaves can only be manufactured and replaced with sunlight and warmth. d. the green chlorophyll normally masks the fall-colored pigments during the warmer months, but as sunlight becomes less abundant and trees become frozen, the fall colors of leaves become more visible as chlorophyll disappears.

Which tense allows for an event that began in the past to carry into the present moment in time