Read the passage. (1) the word quarantine has an interesting history. (2) it comes from the latin word for the number 40. (3) long ago, ships had to stay in port for 40 days if they came from countries where people had the plague. (4) the 40-day stay was meant to keep sick people from spreading the deadly disease to others. (5) as a result, quarantine came to mean “isolation of people with contagious diseases.” (6) the history of the word ketchup is also interesting. (7) ketchup comes from a malay word meaning “fish sauce.” which is the most effective way to invert sentence 6 in order to vary sentence patterns? the word ketchup also has an interesting history. also interesting is the history of the word ketchup. the history of the word ketchup is interesting, too. also the word ketchup has an interesting history.

Wind blowing briskly leaves falling from the tree which best identifies the form of poetry represented by the stanza? 1.) free verse2.) iambic pentameter3.)sonnet4.) quatain

Besides the skull and cross bones what other shape sometimes appeared on flags flown by pirates?

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.