When do you drop the final –e from a root word?

a.) when the suffix begins with a consonant

b.) when you have to double the final consonant

c.) when you are adding a –y

d.) when you are adding a suffix that begins with a vowel

How did the older men calm the younger ones down when they learned from some of the prisoners where they were? (chapter 3 of the book night)

Read the passage below my men came pressing round me, pleading: 'why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? we'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. we say put out again on good salt water! ' ah, how sound that was! yet i refused. i wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends. -the odyssey, homer what inferences can be made about odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the cyclops? check all that apply. a.odysseus does not care about his crew. b.odysseus is curious about what the cyclops is like. c.odysseus wants to see if the cyclops will give him anything. d.odysseus is scared of the cyclops. e.odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.

Explain the purpose of eliezer's fathers allusion to mrs schachter