Read the following paragraph and select the appropriate correction for the sentence in bold: Every time I eat this brand of chocolate, I sneeze. It is the weirdest thing, but it happened every time I eat it. Still, I think this is my favorite chocolate brand in the whole world. It's the perfect mixture of sweet, rich, and satisfying. I eat it whenever I get a chance!

It is the weirdest thing, but it happens every time I eat it.
It was the weirdest thing, but it happened every time I eat it.
It is the weirdest thing, but it happened every time I ate it.
It was the weirdest thing, but it happens every time I ate it.

What is the central idea of “the light of gandhi’s lamp”? how does the central idea emerge and develop over the course of the passage? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be at least two complete paragraphs.

Used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

Read the excerpt from “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” i do not believe we should have to leave out the crucial elements of our language and culture to contribute to american literature, but, unfortunately, this is a conclusion i am forced to reach. i have been writing for a quarter century, and have been a published author for eighteen years. as a writer, i was part of the chicano movement which created a new literature in this country. which type of rhetoric is used most in the excerpt to convince readers that anaya’s conclusion is accurate? an appeal based on emotion an appeal based on logic an appeal based on the author’s character an appeal based on the author’s feelings