Consider these sentences: our parents pay for our cell phones. they like to be in constant contact with us. which sentence uses parenthetical elements most effectively to combine the information in the sentences? parents (who pay for our cell phones) like to be in constant contact with us. parents who pay for our phones (like to be) in constant contact (with us). our parents like to be in constant contact with us (even though) they pay—for our cell phones. liking to be in constant contact with us, our parents—pay—for our cell phones.

Which three of the following choices are advantages of using active voice a) engages readers b) less wordy c) conceals the subject d) less confusing e) object acted on is given importance

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

Select the abbreviation that tells how the italicized noun clause is used. s-subject, do-direct object, pn-predicate noun, op-object of preposition the first thing to consider was how to find a paying job. s op pn do