Underline the simple subjects once and the simple predicates t
Write S if the sentence is a simple sentence,
Write Cir the sentence is a compound sentence, (Chapter
3. Jake bought a baseball glove, but it was
too small
4. Jake and Ryan play baseball every day
5. Ryan pitches and chases the ball,
6. Jake hits the ball, and Ryan catches it.
Fill in the circle next to each correct answer. (Chapter 2)
7. The two subjects of a compare-contrast essay

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.