Read the excerpt from a summary of "The World on Turtle's Back." [1] The twins had opposite natures: the right-handed twin was truthful, and the left-handed twin was deceitful. [2] The right-handed twin always did the right thing, and the left-handed twin always did everything backward. [3] In these ways, the brothers represented the two warring natures that are in all people. [4] Quarreling constantly, they used magical powers to create animals that fought one another, and to create plants and medicines that could be used for good or for evil. Which best describes sentence 2?

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Read the excerpt from a summary of “The World on Turtle’s Back.” [1] The twins had opposite natures: the right-handed twin was truthful, and the left-handed twin was deceitful. [2] The right-handed twin always did the right thing, and the left-handed twin always did everything backward. [3] In these ways, the brothers represented the two warring natures that are in all people. [4] Quarreling constantly, they used magical powers to create animals that fought one another, and to create plants and medicines that could be used for good or for evil.

Which best describes sentence 2?

A. It is a run-on sentence.

B. It is a simple sentence.

C. It is a compound-complex sentence.

D. It is a compound sentence.

The option that best describes sentence 2 is:

D. It is a compound sentence.

Explanation:

An independent clause is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate and that is able to express a complete thought on its own.

When we join two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction, we have a compound sentence. Coordinating conjunctions are the following: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

That is what we have in sentence 2, "The right-handed twin always did the right thing, and the left-handed twin always did everything backward." The coordinating conjunction "and" is connecting the two independent clauses. If we separate them, we can see they are independent because they can each express a full thought:

- The right-handed twin always did the right thing.

- And the left-handed twin always did everything backward.

Note: We would have a run-on sentence if sentence 2 did not have a comma before the conjunction.

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.