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Popular Cooking Competitions
Daniel Toomer

(1) My family doesn't agree about much, but one thing we can agree on is watching cooking competitions on television. (2) For some reason, everyone in my family finds these types of shows extremely relaxing. (3) We are watching shows like Cake Boss and American Cookie Competition for the past several years. (4) We like to cheer on our favorite bakers, and we like to groan when an adventurous recipe plan goes wrong. (5) I don't think that just a plain cooking show has enough energy for us--it has to have a competitive flavor! (6) Lately, though, we will be trying to branch out and watch other types of shows, but we always end up back on the food network channels. (7) You'd think that we'd love cooking because we love cooking shows so much, but we actually don't! (8) Maybe one day we'll stop watching cooking competition shows and actually get into the kitchen ourselves!
How should sentence (3) be changed?
A) Change are to is
B) Change are to have been
C) Add a comma behind the noun American Cookie Competition
D) Remove italics from Cake Boss and American Cookie Competition

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the correct answer is the name of the author of the quotation appears at the text leading up to it   apex 2018