Abackyard fruit bat watches, “swinging mallets! spinning balls in a host of colors! a croquet set straight from the fairest of three-dollar garage sales.” the bat, of course, has very poor eyesight. the bat tries to imagine happy backyard scenes through its blurry vision. descriptions written by a bat only add to the appeal of tim ranch’s latest novel, sleeping upside-down.

the author uses paragraph 1 to
a) describe the book’s main themes.
b) tell which sections are the best.
c) summarize the plot, setting, and characters.
d) gain the reader’s attention with vivid imagery.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

answer: common sense was the pamphlet that thomas paine used to convince reluctant americans to abandon the goal of reconciling with britain and to accept that independence was the only option to preserve their liberty.