Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta. Her tenacity earned her a mixed reputation. As a woman, she faced gender discrimination, even among the farm workers she tried to help. She has also been honored many times in her lifetime and remains active long past retirement. But as Huerta said, you do not expect rewards for helping the oppressed: "You do it because they need help.” Based on this excerpt, which word best describes Dolores Huerta? popular gentle determined friendly

Determined

Explanation: Popular does not fit because the paragraph says she has a mixed reputation. Gentle would not fit because this doesn't fit the actions described. Friendly doesn't fit because nothing is stated about her life with friends. Determined fits because she was determined to stand up and help farm workers in the face of discrimination.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

to not go near anything hot