Which common feature of informal language should be avoided in formal language?

Answer: contractions.

Explanation:

Informal contractions are the short form of a word that and are used while speaking casually. Contractions are not slang but are similar to slang. They are a part of informal writings. Example: he's (he+is), gonna (going+to),etc.

Use of contractions should be avoided in formal writings. Contractions are basically a combination of two words. Hence their use is inappropriate in formal writings.

Hence, contractions should only be used in informal writings and should be avoided in formal language.

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. Based on the story, what happened to the donkey? *
A He was sold at the market.
B The Miller and his son took him home.
C He fell into the river.
D He got scared from people laughing and pointing at him, so he ran away.
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List at least three (3) clues in the poem that inform the reader this poem is inspired by the early spring:

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use personification by describing a hot, humid day in Texas.

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The right to make my dreams come true,
I ask, nay, I demand of life,
Nor shall fate's deadly contraband
Impede my steps, nor countermand;
Too long my heart against the ground
Has beat the dusty years around,
And now at length I rise! I wake!
And stride into the morning break!

Refer to the article "Fire Up the Sun."

What is the author's purpose for including the ingredients for vegetarian chili in the article?

Responses

to suggest a meal that is low-cost for families
to suggest a meal that is low-cost for families

to explain how to cook soups and stews properly
to explain how to cook soups and stews properly

to persuade readers to try their ovens
to persuade readers to try their ovens

to convince readers to become vegetarian

Item 5
Read the excerpt from “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.”

I called upon my friend, Sherlock Holmes, on the second morning after Christmas, to wish him a happy holiday. He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing gown among a pile of crumpled morning newspapers. He was peering through a magnifying glass at an old, shabby black hat, cracked in several places.

“Am I interrupting you?” I asked.

“Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my findings.”

I sat down in his armchair and warmed my hands before his crackling fire. A sharp frost had set in, and the windows were thick with the ice crystals. “I suppose,” I remarked, “that, homely as it looks, that hat has some deadly story linked on to it. Is it the clue that will guide you to the solution of a mystery, or the punishment of a crime?”

“No, no. No crime,” said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. “Only one of those odd little events that happen when you have four million people crowded together within the space of a few square miles.”

Question 1
Part A

What can readers conclude based on the details in the text?


Dr. Watson mostly takes the lead on solving crimes.

City life has become tiresome for Holmes.

Holmes values talking with Dr. Watson about his cases.

Holmes can be lazy about doing detective work.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer to Part A?


“’Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my findings.’”

“’Only one of those odd little events that happen when you have four million people crowded together within the space of a few square miles.’”

“He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing gown among a pile of crumpled morning newspapers.”

“’I suppose,’ I remarked, ‘that, homely as it looks, that hat has some deadly story linked on to it.’”

Fix each sentence fragment by adding a subject, predicate or independent clause.

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Submit your three or four-paragraph open letter about a current issue in your school or community that expresses your position on the topic and provides two claims and four pleces of supporting evidence (key facts, examples, detalls). Make it clear who you are addressing in the letter and what you hope to accomplish.

Well, son, I'll tell you:

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

It's had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor - Bare.

But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on,

And reachin' landin's,

And turnin' corners,

And sometimes goin' in the dark

Where there ain't been no light.

So boy, don't you turn back.

Don't you set down on the steps

'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.

Don't you fall now -

For I'se still goin', honey,

I'se still climbin',

And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

—“Mother to Son,”
Langston Hughes

What is the central idea of the poem?

Life is not easy, but there are places along the way for children and parents to rest.
Life is not an easy journey, but children should keep climbing, just like their parents.
Life is not easy, but if it were too easy, children would not listen to their parents.

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A text is explaining about the adaptations that certain
animals have that protect them from their predators, or
animals that want to eat them. The article says that
animals use camouflage to hide from their enemies. On
the side of the article, there is a picture of a lizard that is
the same color of the leaves he is hiding in.

How does this image connect with the text?

A. The image gives an example of the ideas explained in the text.
B. The image adds humor to the ideas of the article.
C. The image explains how a lizard hides so he can catch food.
D. The image makes the page more interesting.

Why was the Magna Carta written?

Chapter 5 is one of the few chapters in which the narrator pays attention to food. What do the boys eat? What does this tell readers about the time and place of the story?

Story: The outsiders

Looking from outer space, the only made-made structure that can be seen is the 3,500 mile great wall of china.

Give me a sentence and a definition for the word “immigrant”

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How did being respected (or disrespected) affect the way you saw yourself?

Based on pages 126–129 of chains, why does Isabel ask Becky if Madam Lockton had hit her head?

Sort the following sentences into the categories based on whether they use verbs in the active voice or passive voice.

adapted from To My Old Master

This letter was written by Jourdon Anderson, a person who escaped slavery during the Civil War. The letter is addressed to the man who once held him in slavery, Colonel P.H. Anderson. After the Civil War, Colonel Anderson’s plantation was failing, and he wrote Jourdon to ask him to return to work the fields and help him save his business.

Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865.

To my old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee.

Sir:

I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt and am glad you are still living. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance . . .

I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get $25 a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy (the folks call her Mrs. Anderson), and the children, Milly, Jane, and Grundy, go to school and are learning well . . .

As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At $25 a month for me, and $2 a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to $11,680. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor’s visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to.

From your old servant,

Jourdon Anderson

P.S.— Say howdy to George Carter and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
In "To My Old Master," which quote from the text best states a claim Jourdon makes about the value of the Colonel's offer of independence and a better life?

"I have often felt uneasy about you. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt and am glad you are still living."

"As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville."

"I get $25 a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy (the folks call her Mrs. Anderson), and the children"

"Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you."

What medium do you most enjoy? opinion pieces, persuasive essays, narrative stories, descriptive imagination, explanations

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Read "Sonnet" by James Weldon Johnson. In a well-written paragraph of 5–7 sentences, explain how the structure of the poem affects its meaning. Be sure to discuss the meter, rhyme scheme, shift, and couplet.


My heart be brave, and do not falter so,

Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail.

Thy way is very dark and drear I know,

But do not let thy strength and courage fail;

For certain as the raven-winged night

Is followed by the bright and blushing morn,

Thy coming morrow will be clear and bright;

'Tis darkest when the night is furthest worn.

Look up, and out, beyond, surrounding clouds,

And do not in thine own gross darkness grope,

Rise up, and casting off thy hind'ring shrouds,

Cling thou to this, and ever inspiring hope:

Tho' thick the battle and tho' fierce the fight,

There is a power making for the right.

In 1910, just before Marie Curie collected her second Nobel Prize for radioactivity, young György Hevesy arrived in England to study radioactivity himself. His university’s lab director in Manchester, Ernest Rutherford, immediately assigned Hevesy the Herculean task of separating out radioactive atoms from nonradioactive atoms inside blocks of lead. Actually, it turned out to be not Herculean but impossible. Rutherford had assumed the radioactive atoms, known as radium-D, were a unique substance. In fact, radium-D was radioactive lead and therefore could not be separated chemically. Ignorant of this, Hevesy wasted two years tediously trying to tease lead and radium-D apart before giving up.

Hevesy—a bald, droopy-cheeked, mustached aristocrat from Hungary—also faced domestic frustrations. Hevesy was far from home and used to savory Hungarian food, not the English cooking at his boardinghouse. After noticing patterns in the meals served there, Hevesy grew suspicious that, like a high school cafeteria recycling Monday’s hamburgers into Thursday’s beef chili, his landlady’s “fresh” daily meat was anything but. When confronted, she denied this, so Hevesy decided to seek proof.

Miraculously, he’d achieved a breakthrough in the lab around that time. He still couldn’t separate radium-D, but he realized he could flip that to his advantage. He’d begun musing over the possibility of injecting minute quantities of dissolved lead into a living creature and then tracing the element’s path, since the creature would metabolize the radioactive and nonradioactive lead the same way, and the radium-D would emit beacons of radioactivity as it moved. If this worked, he could actually track molecules inside veins and organs, an unprecedented degree of resolution.

Before he tried this on a living being, Hevesy decided to test his idea on the tissue of a nonliving being, a test with an ulterior motive. He took too much meat at dinner one night and, when the landlady’s back was turned, sprinkled “hot” lead over it. She gathered his leftovers as normal, and the next day Hevesy brought home a newfangled radiation detector from his lab buddy, Hans Geiger. Sure enough, when he waved it over that night’s goulash, Geiger’s counter went furious: click-click-click-click. Hevesy confronted his landlady with the evidence. But, being a scientific romantic, Hevesy no doubt laid it on thick as he explained the mysteries of radioactivity. In fact, the landlady was so charmed to be caught so cleverly, with the latest tools of forensic science, she didn’t even get mad. There’s no historical record of whether she altered her menu, however.



Now, you’ll analyze how the text’s structure helps the author achieve his purpose. Present your analysis in a paragraph by following these steps:

Make a statement that identifies the author’s choice of text structure and how it contributes to the overall purpose.
Support your statement with evidence from the text.
Explain how the evidence supports your statement.

A postitive denotation and negative denotation for the word "to look at."

Narrative elements in how I learned English
1 is A
2 is B
3 is A
4 is D
5 is D
6 is D
7 is A
8 is C
9 is B
10 is B

03.08 Advanced Which Pitch? Worksheet
Part I: Which Pitch? Chart
Using the advertisements and pitches from the lesson, complete the chart.
*Note: Not all portions of the chart will be filled out. If the section does not apply, type “No” in that section of the chart.

FreshPhoneZ TechPhones 3000 Global Waves
Allusions
Did the pitch use any allusions? If so, what were they? Include examples. What was the meaning?
Figurative Language
Did the pitch use figurative language? If so, which type? Include examples.


Logical Fallacies
Did the pitch use logical fallacies? Which fallacies were used?
Include examples.


Technical Language
Did the pitch use technical language? What was the effect?
Include examples.



Part 2: Which Pitch? Paragraph
Which Pitch?
Based on the information from the chart, which pitch was the most effective? Why?

Respond in a compare and contrast paragraph of at least seven sentences. Use examples from each pitch in your response.

Mullet fingers and Roy have very different approaches to save the owls. Whose approach do you think ultimately produces the most results? Explain.