Which of the following is a compound sentence? A. Predicting the weather can be very difficult and is based on a number of complicated factors.

B. Most names given to clouds describe their shapes and positions to help us identify them.

C. Lightning is caused by electrical charges, and it always occurs before the sound of thunder.

D. Water evaporates into the air from oceans, lakes, and rivers, and eventually becomes vapor and clouds.

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1) each morning , dew glistens on the grass. 2) the sun yawns , scanning the horizon for companion clouds. 3) perched high ancient oak trees, startlings and sparrows announce a new day.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

  which statement describes the main argument of truth’s speech