Read the excerpt from willa cather's review of the awakening from the pittsburgh leader, july 8, 1899.-
an author's choice of themes is frequently as inexplicable as his choice of a wife. it is governed by some innate
temperamental bias that cannot be diagrammed. this is particularly so in women who write, and i shall not attempt to
say why miss chopin has devoted so exquisite and sensitive, well-governed a style to so trite and sordid a theme.
she writes much better than it is ever given to most people to write, and hers is a genuinely literary style.
what is willa cather's response to chopin's writing?
cather is critical of chopin's complicated plot.
cather is critical of chopin's writing style.
cather is critical of chopin's temperamental characters.
cather is critical of chopin's choice of themes

In this project you will get practice writing sentences of more complexity. here is your goal for this assignment: write sentences containing present and past participles. write sentences containing gerunds. write ten sentences using the following terms as participles: feel, ride, smoke, pray, kneel, sacrifice, steal, talk, hit, and freeze. five of the terms must be used as present participles, while the other five must be used as past participles. then choose five of these verbs to write five sentences containing gerunds or gerund phrases. for these, identify the noun function of each gerund. your project will be graded based on the following: your attention to the instructions given above use of proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, and sentence construction (commonly called "conventions") requirements.