6. One main purpose of a colon is to

A. mark the boundaries between strong words.

B. introduce a list.

C. introduce quotation marks.

D. replace a question mark.

Student Answer: A

Answer: Incorrect

Lukas is unhappy with the way he is being treated at work. He plans to quit as he believes his boss is undermining his efforts.

Which sentence contains the correct use of the - ly modifler A. A hawk soared effortlessly through the night sky. B. A frightened rodents attempts at hiding were unsuccessfully. C. The hawk's sharp talons pierced the rodents skin hardly.

Which of the following sentences uses reflective pronouns correctly? Jason brought three sandwiches for himself, me myself beat the schools track record, my sisters and myself shared a large bedroom, my cousins and I spent the day picking apples

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Why is Marty "trying to hold the tears back" when he and his father are driving back from Judd Travers's house? A. Judd accused Marty of stealing Shiloh from him. B. Marty's father forced Marty to apologize to Judd. C.

Write a sentence with personification using the word car

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Jay remembers someone giving her a gold ring. (into passive voice)

In "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Herman Melville uses all of the following except A.) first-person narrative perspective B.) complex syntactical structures C.) detailed physical descriptions D.) colloquialisms E.) frame-story structure

The literary movement of modernism is what