(1) every summer, my family and i go on a week’s vacation to lake michigan. (2) when we are there, we stay in a cabin that our cousins own. (3) sometimes they take their vacation the same time we do and stay with us. (4) if the weather is good, we spend our days doing outdoor activities. (5) we play baseball, go hiking, and ride our bikes. (6) the days we swim, however, are the best of all. (7) on a hot day, i love the feel of the cool lake water, and i enjoy watching the gulls fly overhead.

which is the most effective way to invert sentence (6) in order to vary sentence patterns?
a. swimming days are the best of all, however.
b. however, the days we swim are the best of all.
c. best of all, however, are the days we swim.
d. the days, however, we swim are the best of all.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.