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Read the passage from an argumentative essay.Healthcare costs are becoming an issue for many Americans. In just two years, the average family has seen an increase of 3 percent in insurance costs. The increase rises to 25 percent when you include families who buy insurance on an exchange. At this rate, health care will soon be completely unaffordable for most Americans. Therefore, lowering the cost of health insurance must be a priority for lawmakers.
Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon.”My father is a priest; I am the son of a priest. I have been in the Dead Places near us, with my father—at first, I was afraid. When my father went into the house to search for the metal, I stood by the door and my heart felt small and weak. It was a dead man's house, a spirit house. It did not have the smell of man, though there were old bones in a corner. But it is not fitting that a priest's son should show fear. I looked at the bones in the sh
When revising an essay, how can a writer best connect ideas more clearly?
How does the narrator’s knowledge of his postapocalyptic world in "By the Waters of Babylon” affect his reactions to the different settings?
What are the four questions that adverbs answer?
Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon.”When I was very near, my raft struck and turned over. I can swim in our lakes—I swam to the shore. There was a great spike of rusted metal sticking out into the river—I hauled myself up upon it and sat there, panting. I had saved my bow and two arrows and the knife I found in the Dead Place but that was all. My raft went whirling downstream toward the Bitter Water. I looked after it, and thought if it had trod me under, at least I would be safely dead. Nevertheless, when I had dried my bowstring and re-strung it, I walked forward to the Place of the Gods.
what are some things you should include in a persuasive paragraph if you wanted to appeal to logic?
What should you include in a persuasive essay if you wanted to appeal to emotions?
Identify the question that is being answered by the adverb modifier in the sentence below:Janice walked softly through the living room so she wouldn’t wake her father.
For further practice, create your own sentences using the following modifiers: when buying your first car, upon arriving at the train station, working diligently on the project, running to catch the baby, when only seven years old,
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to caribou,moose, musk oxen, wolves, foxes, grizzlies, polar bearsand migratory birds. Leaders in the oil industry believethe refuge is the perfect site for the “environmentallysensitive exploration” of oil. Environmentalists arewondering: What will become of the wildlife?President George W. Bush, oil-industry leaders and othersbelieve that Americans will benefit from the oil that liesunder the snow-filled surface of the refuge. In theiropinion, the oil will help reduce high fuel prices anddecrease our need for oil from other countries.I believe the cost of such drilling is too high. I agree withenvironmentalists who fear that drilling will disturb themigration of more than 130,000 caribou. Each spring, thecaribou travel 400 miles to give birth on the coastal plain.In this area of the refuge, there are fewer predators. Inaddition, experts say that the oil in the area adds up toless than a six-month supply. Is such a small amount of oilworth the risk drilling poses to these animals?Americans are the largest consumers of oil. Instead ofdrilling for oil, we should decrease our need for foreignoil simply by using less. We must all work together to cutback on the oil we use in order to preserve the wildlifeof the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Students will eat all of their lunches instead of throwing them away.Lunches would cost more money.Students learn better when they aren't hungry.If more people bought lunches, more people would need to be hired.Students will want to come to school for the good lunches.Students only want junk food.
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