[Martin] noticed that our small apartment was completely empty. Our old sofa, end tables, and TV were gone. All the family pictures on the wall were missing. Even our small kitchen, which I could see from the front door, was bare. The cheap metal cabinets were open and empty. The air smelled of lemons and bleach, the way it did whenever my mother cleaned.”
8. The main idea of the excerpt is that Martin’s
a. mother used lemon and bleach to clean.

b. mother’s apartment had a small kitchen with cheap cabinets.

c. mother’s apartment has been emptied and cleaned.

Choose one of the topics below and use all five sentence patterns in a composition of at least 100 words. return to the lessons "patterns: inverted, compound parts, s/v/do" and "patterns: s/lv/pn, s/lv/pa, s/v/io/do" if you need to review the sentence patterns. you will be graded based on whether all five sentence patterns are present in your work. suggestions for topics: a. what if the sun exploded? b. what if every family owned a helicopter? c. what if each year were six months long instead of twelve? d. what if you were the president of the united states?