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in this excerpt from susan glaspell's trifles, why does mrs. hale advise mrs. peters to lie to mrs. wright about the broken bottles?
mrs hale: (not as if answering that) i wish you'd seen minnie foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and sang. (a look around the room) oh, i wish i'd come over here once in a while! that was a crime! that was a crime! who's going to punish that?
mrs peters: (looking upstairs) we mustn't—take on.
mrs hale: i might have known she needed ! i know how things can be—for women. i tell you, it's queer, mrs peters. we live close together and we live far apart. we all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing, (brushes her eyes, noticing the bottle of fruit, reaches out for it) if i was you, i wouldn't tell her her fruit was gone. tell her it ain't. tell her it's all right. take this in to prove it to her. she—she may never know whether it was broke or not.
a - mrs. hale feels sympathetic toward mrs. wright.
b - mrs. hale is responsible for breaking the bottles.
c - mrs. hale doesn’t want to cause mrs. wright any more grief.
d - mrs. hale feels jealous of mrs. wright's tasty fruit preserves.
e - mrs. hale doesn’t want to clean up the broken bottles of preserves.

at hatfield elementary school, there are 504 students in 7 classes. each class has the same number of students. what is a good estimate of the number of students in each class?

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.