Which statement is a theme of "august heat"?

words written in stone are not always true.

only the good die young.

always be wary of the kindness of strangers.

one cannot change fate.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

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