Find the best word to complete the sentence

In a ___ display of wealth, Cornelius Vanderbilt provided his dinner guests with little gold shovels for digging into a tray of sand for gemstones.

A.

primate

B.

pretentious

C.

precept

D.

primordial

Imagine your local school board is debating whether or not to include Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in its high school English curriculum and libraries because of its coarse and potentially racist language.

In which of the following sentences is a present participle used? The flowers are growing in the yard. The flowers grow in the sunshine. The flowers grew outside the window. The flowers had grown in the garden.

The misplaced modifier in this sentence is confusing because it seems to modify which word? While driving to school this morning, a deer ran across the road.

When Using Fraction Strips, How Do You Know That Two Fractions Are Not Equivalent?

Where is the subject in the sentence each and every student and instructor hope for a nice life

Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" Being naturally moved to rejoicing by this narrow escape, I wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, with its embellishments and additions, to carry out the ideal (I never had hallucinations or

According to Goodman, what does it mean to "counter the culture

In the red badge of courage, what colors were the uniforms of the northern army? (with whom Henry fought?)

What is the chain of events driven by conflict and decision making in a text? A. plot B. characterization C. setting D. theme

Read the passage from "the tell-tale heart." and every night, about midnight, i turned the latch of his door and opened it-oh so gently!