Evaluate the clarity and effectiveness of the excerpt below from a letter of complaint and answer the question that follows.
i purchased a kool action game system from bullseye on october 27, 2010 for $109.99. it seemed like a great price until i got it home and began trying to put the thing together. several parts are missing, and the store refuses to exchange the unit because it was on sale. it was not marked “as is,” so i expected a complete and functioning unit.
what, if anything, should be added to this excerpt to the reader address the concern?

Preview the following sentence and identify the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. the brain was riddled with holes, it looked like a sponge. a. bridled c. perforated b. pierced d. b and c select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d mark this and return

Type the correct answer in the box. spell all words correctly. certain species of insects introduced accidentally in a forest are destroying all the douglas fir trees in that forest. the wood of these trees is extensively used for construction. in order to control the damage caused by these insects, the forestry department decided to introduce the moth caterpillar in the forest. these caterpillars are natural predators of the insects. which method did the forestry department implement to control the invasive species? the forestry department implemented a(n) control method.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant