6. My brother wants to be on the basketball team. He's lazy about practicing. The most effective way to combine these sentences would be:
a. My brother wants to be on the basketball team, and he's lazy about practicing.
b. My brother wants to be on the basketball team, but he's lazy about practicing.
c. My brother wants to be on the basketball team, so he's lazy about practicing.

b

Explanation:

a is wrong because there's no need for a comma and a "and" c is wrong because the addition of "so" does not make sense in the sentence

a. and b. are both correct ways to combine the sentences

Explanation:

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it

i believe your answer would be d. matt saw the lost cat, and he looked for its owner.