(1) the only marsupial native to north america is the virginia opossum. (2) like all opossums, it crawls into its mother’s pouch shortly after birth. (3) there, it is nourished until it is about 10 weeks old. (4) a newborn opossum is extremely . (5) it is very small. (6) it is furless. (7) it is sightless. (8) though youngsters leave the pouch after about 10 weeks, they continue to follow their mother on feeding expeditions for some time. which is the most effective way to vary the length of the sentences in the passage? rewrite sentence (4) to make it into a subordinate clause. divide sentence (1) into two shorter sentences. insert more detail into sentence (8) to lengthen it. combine sentences (5), (6), and (7) to create a series.

This small text concerns Virgina opossum, the member of marsupials found in North America.  All the eight sentences contain information regarding to that animal. So that, by working through answers we can answer to the question which our aim is to find the most suitable way to represent this text with one sentence or in some other way shown in the options. First 3 options give information about the animal, but partly. However, the last one full describes the animal in regards with the core information for the text. Therefore, the correct answer is the last option - combination of the sentences (5), (6) and (7).

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

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credit to mohana ram murugiah.

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teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.