The Sahara is a giant desert located in northern Africa. It is the world’s largest traditional desert, meaning a hot, dry desert with large amounts of sand, and it is the second largest desert in the world. [2] The largest desert is Antarctica, but that is a very different type of desert compared to the dry, hot sands of the Sahara. [3] Furthermore, as if the Sahara was not large enough already, it is expanding south into the Sahel about thirty miles every year. [4] The Sahara stretches across northern Africa from the coast of the Red Sea in the east all the way to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. [5] It covers an area of about 3.5 million square miles and is large enough to contain almost the entire continental United States. Which sentence should be moved (and to what location) in order to enhance the coherence of this paragraph?
A)Sentence 3 should go after Sentence 5.
B)Sentence 3 should go after Sentence 4.
C)Sentence 2 should go before Sentence 1.
D)No sentences need to be rearranged in this paragraph.

In the story "seventh grade," how do victor's hopes and expectations about teresa at the beginning of the school day compare with his hopes and expectations about teresa at the end of the school day? his hopes and expectations are exactly the same at the end of the day. his hopes and expectations are completely different at the end of the day. his hopes and expectations are strengthened by the end of the day. his hopes and expectations are weakened by the end of the day.

Which of the following sentences requires a colon to be correct? a. in his vacation suitcase, jonathan packed two pairs of pants, four shirts, his swimsuit, and his favorite pajamas. b. when she decided to write a letter, she grabbed her pen, paper, stamps, and address book. c. the new dessert recipe called for equal parts of sugar, cream, peanut butter, and crushed pecans. d. she gathered all of her ingredients to make a smoothie strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and yogurt.

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values.it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.