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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?
CAHSEE ELA 3.1 Writing Conventions 170 Views
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In this CAHSEE problem, figure out which answer best fills in the blanks. CAHSEE ELA: Writing Conventions Drill 3, Problem 1
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Hurry And here's your shmoop toos your brought to you
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by pro now nhs Because anti downs Well they just
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bring us down All right we chance her best fills
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in the blanks right here Fire trucks fed to a
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burning building But blank did not make it in time
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and hear the potential answers They so like that female
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fired All right Well this one's a walk in the
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park all we have to do is find the pronoun
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that goes with the noun fire truck Let's begin by
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nixing choice See fire trucks are things so we wouldn't
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refer to them as he's Almost there Secretly transformers But
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that's not case nearly as much as it oughta be
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Pretty cool right Option d isn't right either She it's
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true that some fireman might lovingly refer to their fire
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truck is a she like sailors did with their boats
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in the old days But we don't know any fire
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trucks all that well so it might be rude Teo
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get that familiar If you get our drift answer a
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suggest the pronoun they well we're getting warmer here but
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because they can be used to refer to things as
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well as people The problem is that they is plural
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in this sentence Only mentioned one fire truck if there
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are any other fire truck's involved Well they're still casting
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were left outside All right choice b is the only
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one that gets it right The pro known it is
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singular and is on ly used to refer to things
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well is also used to refer to killer clowns but 00:01:29.008 --> [endTime] no one wants to think about thea
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