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What Does "Burning the Midnight Oil" Mean?

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Answer 1
Answer: To work late into the night. Formerly it was in the light of an oil lamp or candle.

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Write a letter to the editor

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Answer:

given below a letter to the editor.

What does forbade mean.

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for·badefərˈbad,fərˈˈbād/past of forbid.for·bidfərˈbid/verbpast tense: forbaderefuse to allow (something)
its the past tense for saying forbidden
e.x " i forbade her from going to the party with her friends "

Which phrases in this excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby" are participial phrases?

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The correct answer for this question is this one: "C.) "The other houses on the street...gazed at one another..." Participial phrase is a phrase that contains the verb and acts as an adjective, modifying a noun or a pronoun.

Here are the choices:
A.) "We waited to see whether she would remain or go in..." 
B.) "Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance" 
C.) "The other houses on the street...gazed at one another..." 
D.) "I listened to the fall of the coins."

CAN BE MULTIPLE ANSWERS!!!!!!!What does this excerpt from act 1 of Romeo and Juliet reveal about the Montague-Capulet feud?

ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON: I do bite my thumb, sir.
ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON: (aside to GREGORY) Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
GREGORY: Do you quarrel, sir?
ABRAHAM: Quarrel sir! no, sir.
SAMPSON: If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.
ABRAHAM: No better.
SAMPSON: Well, sir.
GREGORY: Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.
SAMPSON: Yes, better, sir.
ABRAHAM: You lie.
SAMPSON: Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

The servants are more serious about the feud than their masters.
The servants of both households use the feud as an excuse to pick fights with each other.
The Capulet-Montague feud is petty, foolish, and easily blown out of proportion.
The servants don’t take the feud seriously and are disinterested in its outcome.
The young noblemen of both houses use the feud as an excuse to pick fights.

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The  act 1 of Romeo and Juliet reveal about the Montague-Capulet feud: 
* The servants of both households use the feud as an excuse to pick fights with each other.
* The Capulet-Montague feud is petty, foolish, and easily blown out of proportion.
* The young noblemen of both houses use the feud as an excuse to pick fights.

Which of the following sentences is correct?A. The musical group whom won the top prize are from my hometown.
B. That author is the one who I saw at the bookstore today.
C. She is the person whom he had found sleeping in the library.
D. Against who did you think you would compete in the contest?

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The correct answer is letter C. She is the person whom he had found sleeping in the library.

A. The musical group whom won the top prize are from my hometown (WRONG) Because of the word 'whom' which supposedly 'who'

B. That author is the one who I saw at the bookstore today. (WRONG) Whom instead of who

D. Against who did you think you would compete in the contest? (WRONG) It should be whom instead of who

How dors stalin compare the soviet union to germany

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During the 20th century, Stalinism and Nazismwas were on the topics of totalitarianism, ideology, & personality. Both regimes were seen in the state of being strikingly different from something else to the liberal West, with a value on the same situation between the two, while their differences from each other were smaller.

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During the 20th century, Stalinism and Nazismwas were on the topics of totalitarianism, ideology, & personality. Both regimes were seen in the state of being strikingly different from something else to the liberal West, with a value on the same situation between the two, while their differences from each other were smaller.

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