ILL MARK BRAINLIEST FOR REASONABLE ANSWER:) Discussion Topic
Read the quote and answer the following
questions. Answer in complete sentences
and with your BEST work.
"He had been prepared to lie, to bluster, to
remain sullenly unresponsive; but, reassured by
the good-humored intelligence of the Controller's
face, he decided to tell the truth,
straightforwardly."
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
1. What effect does the repetition of infinitives (to
lie, to bluster, to remain) in the first clause have
on the meaning of the sentence? How do these
infinitives prepare you for the infinitive phrase (to
tell the truth) in the second clause?
2. What is the function of the semicolon in
Huxley's sentence?

The overwhelming majority of the peoples and nations of the world today want to live in peace

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

Which of the following statements is most accurate? a. effective communication skills are not as important as technical skills. b. good communication skills can you in the classroom, on the job, and in your personal life. c. communicating effectively is not related to job success. d. learning to communicate effectively cannot be taught because communication skills are inborn.