How does the illustration the reader understand the text? the illustration shows that grinding sugar with mechanical equipment is inefficient. the illustration emphasizes why grinding sugar cane into white sugar is necessary. the illustration depicts enslaved sugar mill workers as completely exhausted. the illustration depicts the people, equipment, and oxen required to manufacture sugar.

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.