How does the central or main idea that the author has advanced in “A Celebration of Grandfathers” help you understand the author’s purpose for writing this essay? How does his use of personal memories help to make his purpose clear? Use your understanding of supporting details and ideas to explain how the author builds up a central or main idea in the essay. Support your writing with evidence from the text.

What is the origin of déjà vu, and what is its meaning?

Write two or three simple sentences describing the picture above.

Read the sentence a student wrote. as he listened to the haunting notes of the song the author realized he had found the inspiration for his next suspense novel. the teacher reviewing this sentence would point out that since this is a complex sentence, there should be a comma after “song.” compound sentence, there should be a comma after “realized.” complex sentence, there should be a comma after “inspiration.” compound sentence, there should be a comma after “found.”