[1] This year, the Linden High School debate team is bigger than ever. [2] Neither the students nor the faculty advisor have much experience, but it's a smart, capable, argumentative group! [3] As a team, we've tried to make a schedule that allows her to study, prepare, and scrimmage. [4] Only one of us is able to practice on Thursdays or Fridays, which can be inconvenient. [5] Even so, we feel prepared and excited for this year's tournaments. [6] Our first debate is on October 10th, and each of us are looking forward to it. Select the combination of sentences which contain grammar errors:

2, 3, 6

Explanation:

[2] Neither the students nor the faculty advisor have much experience, but it's a smart, capable, argumentative group! It should rather be written as: [2] Neither the students nor the faculty advisor have much experience, but it's a smart, capable and argumentative group.

[3] As a team, we've tried to make a schedule that allows her to study, prepare, and scrimmage. It should rather be written as : [3] As a team, we've tried to make a schedule that allows us to study, prepare, and scrimmage.

[6] Our first debate is on October 10th, and each of us are looking forward to it. This should be written as : [6] Our first debate is on October 10th, and each and everyone of us are looking forward to it.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)