From the eleven points listed below, check the four points that would be especially helpful when someone is trying to persuade you to agree with him.

Know whether the statement is based on fact.
Be comfortable, but not too comfortable.
Ask questions whenever possible.
Listen for a summary.
Determine whether the statement agrees with Christian ideals and standards.
Take notes on key information.
Watch the speaker for clues to important information.
Remember that facts are colored by emotion.
Compare new information with what is known.
Ask myself whether I believe the statement because I like the person speaking.
Listen for key words and phrases.

What is the theme of "the story of the fisherman”?

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Write a sentence using a gerund phrase with a pronoun subject.