Read the passage from gulliver's travels. there was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation. which is an objective summary of the passage? in his travels, gulliver is fooled by a silly architect he meets. when he meets a ridiculous architect, gulliver is oddly impressed. gulliver encounters an architect who builds houses from the top down. gulliver meets an architect who has a crazy way of building houses.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

well stockyards mean a large yard containing pens and sheds, typically adjacent to a slaughterhouse, in which livestock is kept and sorted. and i'm assuming that by party you   mean a large group of people which does make sense because chicago is a very crowded place much like new york. stockyards tend to take up a lot of room due to needing the area for pens to keep animals in and the fact that stockyards are usually right by slaughterhouse where they process and distribute the product. so its much like a zoo but with some dead animal products close by.