Assignment As you complete the assignment, remember that:
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restrictive elements are necessary to the meaning of a sentence; nonrestrictive elements are not.
nonrestrictive elements should be set off from the rest of the sentence.
commas are generally used to separate items in a list.
semicolons can separate items in a list when one or more of the items already contains commas.
compound modifiers that contain an adverb ending in-ly are never hyphenated.
other compound modifiers should be hyphenated when they come before the nouns they modify.

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader

the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.

a dictionary contains alphabetical list of words that include the meaning, etymology and pronunciation while the thesaurus is a book that contains synonyms and even antonyms.

a dictionary explains the meaning of a word and shows how it is spelled and used. a thesaurus is a book that contains words that can be used in the place of another. unlike the dictionary the words in a thesaurus are arranged either alphabetically or thematically.