A. Read these words aloud. Jau/ sound
law/ sound
Jou/ sound
caution
awful
ouch
launch
awesome
shout
paunch
jawline
flout
Now write three more words with the:
1. /au/sound.
2. /aw/sound.
3. /ou/sound.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)