Identify the option containing a sentence fragment.
a.
the water was boiling, and it was spilling all over the stove.
b.
the water was boiling. and spilling all over the stove.
c.
the water was boiling. it was spilling all over the stove.
d.
the water was boiling and spilling all over the stove.

Of course employees should be reprimanded when they make an error that costs the company money; but it is wise to think about the serious consequences of firing them hastily. how will the families survive when the only source of income is lost? even with a job, many parents are struggling; imagine their small children going to bed hungry. it could take months to find another job. who will pay rent? before long a family could end up on the street or living out of their car. only a cruel person can disregard the human suffering that results from immediate firings for employees' errors. the author of this text uses a) appeals to logos. b) appeals to ethos. c) appeals to pathos. d) appeals to profit.

Which sentences from part 1 of the call of the wild would best serve as evidence of the theme "sometimes survival depends on knowing when not to fight"? buck had accepted the rope with quiet dignity. to be sure, it was an unwonted performance: but he had learned to trust in men he knew, and to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own. he had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command. but to his surprise the rope tightened around his neck, shutting off his breath. he saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. he had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. that had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. they would never get another rope around his neck.

Read the excerpt from hemingway’s a farewell to arms. we parked the cars beyond the brickyard. the ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. there were three doctors that i knew. i talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. which best describes hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt? straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader long-winded and offering far too much information to the reader overly complicated, making it difficult to interpret and understand the text effortless and uncomplicated, with little meaning for the reader to interpret