Until contagious childhood diseases could be prevented by vaccines, a case of scarlet fever required a ___ of the invalid for six weeks.

A. excerpting

B. exoneration

C. mediation

D. sequestration

Choose the form of the verb that best completes the sentence. A) gave B) give C) given D) giving

What part of speech is the underlined word in the sentence? the line is long but moving (quickly). a. verb b. adverb c. adjective d. preposition

Is this a run-on sentence? On average, office workers spend more than five hours sitting at their desks, researchers believe that extended periods of sitting can have a negative impact on overall health.

A play on words that sound alike but have different meanings

Which details from this excerpt best show that the author's purpose in including this paragraph is to illustrate how hazardous the scientists' work is?

After years of mom pressing me to play the piano, I had finally given in

Which of the following is a correct sentence? a. Because I said so. b. No way Noah is going to agree with your proposal. c. Of course I'm surprised. d. Back to the drawing board, right?

Almost every other compound in nature contracts when frozen, but H2O [water] molecules do the opposite, organizing themselves into elegant hexagonal crystals that take up about 9 percent more space than they did when sloshing around in a liquid

What is the best description of Dickerson's poetry

From the details of this document, one may conclude that A) the United States is still at war with Spain B) the president has only limited powers during wartime C) the United States never truly went to war against Spain D) declarations of war can