Question 4 (10 points) Directions: Read each passage and ask yourself, "What is the author doing in this paragraph? Write your answer in the summary box and then
think of an appropriate title for the passage based on the main idea of the passage.
Nikola Tesla was an inventor and physicist who is best remembered for his contributions to the AC power system and radio,
but he may have also built a death ray. At a 1937 luncheon in his honor, Tesla claimed to have created a weapon that could
shoot a concentrated beam of energy capable of bringing down fleets of airplanes. He further claimed to have built,
demonstrated, and used this weapon. When Tesla entered negotiations with the U. S., the United Kingdom, and the Soviet
Union to sell his device, Tesla claimed that one of these parties had sent people to break into his room and steal his
invention, but that this theft was impossible since the blueprint for the weapon was entirely in his mind. Unfortunately, Tesla
died with the blueprint in his mind before anyone could get one. On second thought, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!

the answer is:

magna carta

homework should not be banned because it tells the teacher if you were paying attention in class or not. it assures the teacher that you understand the material so you can move on to different material.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.