Read the sentence from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.

I went to buy this new equipment I thought I'd need and met a man who had a machine shop of his own who was about to retire and move to Florida.

What type of signal word is used in this sentence?

generalization
description
thought
feeling

Jackson is a very smart little boy he can count to twenty and is only two years old. complete, run on sentence or comma splice

What can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings for him b. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return to human form c. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember being human d. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less human

What effect is created by the plaque posted on the gate at the entrance to the family's home in nadine gordimer's "once upon a time"? the words written on the plaque offer readers a foreshadowing of the story's outcome without revealing the actual conclusion, the author's use of flashback allows readers to understand what is at the heart of the issues of encroachment in the suburban neighborhood the repetition of the words written on the plaque presents an oxymoron because readers already sense that the plaque has been ineffective in warding off intruders. the author introduces a paradox in which readers are presented with a warning notice when no actual infraction has taken place.