Which of the following is a compound sentence? •Because he is an optimist, Tony suggests they could rearrange the furniture to hide the carpet stains, but no one else thinks
the landlord would be fooled.
•The roommates argue over the cause of the stains.
•Tom hopes he can get his security deposit back even though the stains on the carpet make it a long shot.
•George took one last look around the apartment; every stain on the carpet called up another happy memory of freshman
year.

Write two sentences that incorporate 'imagery' (all of your senses) to describe a place that you like to visit.

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.