The blight infected most of the orange trees. only a dozen were spared.
which sentence joins the clauses above correctly without changing their meaning? (2 points)

a. the blight infected most of the orange trees only a dozen, were spared.

b. the blight infected most of the orange trees only; a dozen were spared.

c. the blight infected most of the orange trees; only a dozen were spared.

d. the blight, infected most of the orange trees, only a dozen were spared.

why is it important in a personal narrative to reflect on the experience in the conclusion? (4 points)
a. the reflection fill out what may just be dialogue or action.
b. the reflection provides a key point or focus for the narrative.
c. the reflection allows you create a narrator to explain things.
d. the reflection introduces a key moment in the story.

Read the excerpt from the odyssey then his chores being all dispatched she caught another brace of man to make his breakfast and whisk away his great door slab to let his sheep go through but he behind reset the stones as one would cap a quiver what two things are being compared in this epic simile

How do to my dear loving husband and to the kings most excellent majesty's reflect cultural values of their time

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt