Its excellent fruit was quite a temptation to the hungry swarms of boys, as well as to older slaves, few of whom had the virtue or the vice to resist it.

a. underline the main clause of the sentence.
b. what two nouns does the phrase that begins “few of whom” modify?

It was extremely base of him to desert you in your time of need. ( change into exclamatory sentence)

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

Skill check questions rearrange the paragraphs below into the correct sequence. that's because engineers on the ultraclean project have invented a self-cleaning, antibacterial metal surface that repels water with an intricate layer of laser-engraved valleys. when it rains, the lotus does not become damp; the water simply trickles off in fat droplets, taking any bugs and dirt with it. the drudgery may not be around much longer, however, if a team of italian scientists has anything to do with it “it's simply an amazing plant,” concluded professor luca romoli, leader of the project, “and we've succeeded in mimicking it. magnifico! ” few tasks in life hold less joy than scrubbing the ghost of somebody else’s porridge from a saucepan. the starting point for the research was the leaves of the lotus flower.