Read the passage. (1) exercise provides many benefits. (2) it strengthens muscles. (3) it prevent unhealthful weight gain. (4) it may reduce the risk of some cancers. (5) these are not the only benefits of exercise, however. (6) a recent study concludes that exercise provides mental health benefits too. (7) during exercise, the body produces endorphins. (8) these natural compounds people relax and may lift people’s spirits. which is the most effective way to vary the length of the sentences in the passage? rewrite sentence 8 to make it into a subordinate clause. divide sentence 6 into two shorter sentences. insert more detail into sentence 7 to lengthen it. combine sentences 2, 3, and 4 to create a series.

Either you must stop eating my food from the refrigerator or you must pay me for it. 8. what type of conjunction is used in the sentence?

How did rick respond to this conflict

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant