ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL

Which sentence contains an inappropriate shift in tense? A.
I am reading a poem that was written thousands of years ago.

B.
I finished painting the fence, but Barbara is still repairing the gate.

C.
Hummingbirds are hovering over the geraniums while caterpillars munched leaves.
i thank its c but iam not sure

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Answer 1
Answer:

You would be correct in thinking it is C.

The  reason for this is because the verb hovering is in present tense, but the verb munched is in past tense.

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Answer 2
Answer: The answer is C. Hummingbirds are hovering over the geraniums while caterpillars munched leaves.

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The correct answer is D. Antithesis.

All of the other options represent other figures of speech which are not even similar to what you described in your question.

Antithesis is correct

It is not necessary to give credit for ideas which are not the student's own if those ideas are included in the main body of the research paper. True False

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The correct answer is False

Explanation:

In writing and especially in research papers, it is common to use the ideas proposed by other authors in external sources in order to explain, support or present own ideas and in order to develop the main point of the research or answer to the question on it. This includes summarizing ideas, quoting them or paraphrasing them in different sections of the document; additionally, in any of this cases the student or writer will need to give credit to the author not only because it is ethical to recognize certain ideas are not won ideas but to show the reader your ideas have been also proposed by other authors and because this is part of academic style. Therefore it is false it is not necessary to give credit for ideas if these are included in the main body of the research paper as ideas from different authors need to be credited no matter in which section they appear.
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Noun is a word that displays anything that is a person, place or event.

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Adverb is a word that modifies noun, pronoun, verb, adjective or an adverb itself.

Example: He always (adv) wakes up in the morning at 5 AM sharp.

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Hughes opens and closes the lines with this word. He uses it for times and each of them has its own interpration. Hughes begins his poem with this line:

I dream a world where a man

The line means that the poem itself is about a dream, some unimaginative reality. After three lines he emphasizes the word again:

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With this line, Hughes introduces second set of his dream for the active process. The process is about the present that Hughes has not yet given up that he uses present tense. Therefore, the next line starts the next concept:

A world I dream where black or white

And the last line completes the process by summing up all the wishes:

Of such I dream, my world.

Answer:

the belief that dreams often remain unrealized due to oppression.

Explanation:

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CORRECT ANSWER ► A

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If a sentence begins with although, then you must use a comma.

A is the only sentence with a comma.

D is wrong because the tenses aren't correct = past simple  & present...

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