The following passage contains three sentences fragments. on the lines below rewrite each fragment so that it is a complete sentence. can video games be addictive? a recent study by iowa sate university concluded that 1 in 12 american children between the ages of 8 and 18 are addicted to video games. the same way that people are addicted to drugs or gambling. "pathological gamers" spend more than 24 hours a week playing video games. twice the amount of time spent by most players. researchersare concerned that the united sates may be following in the footsteps of south korea. which has more than one hundred clinics to treat video-game addiction. the american academy of pediatrics recommends no more than two hours a day of "screen time." this includes television, movies and the internet.

“unlike my opponent, i propose freedom from crime, freedom from poverty, and freedom from unemployment “ what rhetorical approach is the speaker most likely to be talking in this sentence? a. the speaker wants the audience to question the meaning of freedom and redifine it. b. the speaker wants the structure of this sentence to stand out in the listeners minds. c. the speaker wants to anticipate and address w counter-argument from his or her opponent. d. the speaker wants to transition into a topic that is largely unrelated to previous topics.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Do you share the same pr a different opinions?