Answer each of the following questions according to the instructions given. question 1 (a–b) is based on the following paragraph.
a trip to the ocean can be a relaxing escape from the everyday pressures of life. a sailboat glistening on the horizon provides a mental escape to faraway places. the rhythm of the ocean beating against the sand is sedating music to a troubled mind. a slow, gentle breeze can relax your tensions. you should always be careful to avoid overexposure to the sun at the beach.
a. write the sentence that is the topic sentence of the paragraph.
b. write the sentence that is unrelated to the topic and can be eliminated.
list four things to look for when you’re proofreading.
complete the following two steps:
a. define the term cliché.
b. use a cliché in a sentence that you create.
name and explain two types of prewriting.
choose one of the prompts listed below. write a five-sentence paragraph using chronological order and including a topic sentence to explain the steps that you would take to complete one of the following tasks.
a. preparing for a test
b. preparing to host a party or an event
c. getting ready for work
d. cleaning your room or your home
e. building a snowman, sandcastle, or sculpture
f. creating a budget
choose one of the following topics. write an eight-sentence paragraph that fully develops the topic.
a. following instructions is very important.
b. job training programs (such as job corps) are valuable to both employers and potential employees.
c. advances in technology are making people less social.
d. a high school diploma is important to my future.
e. college is not for everyone.
f. drunk driving can be stopped.
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We would like to work at the soup kitchen underline startsmore frequentlyunderline ends next year. which best identifies the degree of comparison of the underlined adjective or adverb?

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

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