What does the word "mortar" mean in the following passage? when the last grain of corn was ground into flour, kaddo called the girls together and said, “now bring water from the spring. we shall mix it with the corn flour to make mortar out of it.” so the girls brought water in water pots and mixed it with the flour to make a thick mortar. then kaddo ordered them to make bricks out of the mortar. 1.the name of kaddo's village 2.a mixture used to hold bricks or stones together 3.flour

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.

After the doctors question their authenticity,the duke suggest that he and the king leave immediately with the money they have already stolen.why does the king refuse to leave