Read the sentence from "The History of Veterans Day."

An Act approved on May 13, 1938 made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday.

Which three sentences correctly paraphrase the sentence without changing the meaning or leaving out important information?

November 11 was declared a legal holiday by an Act passed on May 13, 1938 (U. S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs).
Approved on May 13, 1938, 11th of November in each year was a legal holiday (U. S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs).
November 11 of each year was a legal holiday (U. S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs).
An Act, approved on May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday (U. S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs).
On May 13, 1938, the government passed an Act that declared November 11 as an official holiday (U. S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs).
The Act that made November 11 a legal holiday was approved on May 13, 1938 (U. S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs).

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

Now you will do a special kind of problem. you will use the blue boxes below to put events of the story "the baby-sitter" in correct order. each blue box has seven sentences inside it. click the first blue box until you see the first thing that happened in the story. then go on to the next box and the next thing that happened. the last thing that happened should be in the last box. you may need to look back at the story to you remember. if you change your mind at any time while you are working the problem, you can return to a box and click to find a different sentence. when you are all finished, you will be able to read down the list of sentences and see all seven events from the story in the right order. mary jo began to read the alphabet book. mary jo couldn't move. mother asked mary jo to baby-sit. jimmy was very quiet. he had fallen asleep. jimmy to read the book. mother said, "you are a very good baby-sitter." mother picked up sleeping jimmy.

What if the author had used “looked at” instead? punishment would be deemphasized. punishments would be seen as less harsh. the meaning wouldn't change.