The assignment for this lesson is to write two speeches that compare and contrast
Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi with Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
The first speech addresses a group of educated adults who are trying to decide
which work to read and discuss at their book club. Your job is not to recommend one
of these books over the other. Instead, you need to analyze the style of each work in
order to help your listeners make the right choice for their reading interests.

Read the sentences and decide which letter (a,b or c) correctly indicates the subject and its verb in each sentence. in 1957, lester b. pearson sent peacekeepers to the middle east. lester b. pearson, sent 1957, sent peacekeepers, sent

1. in which sentence is the underlined portion a predicate nominative? for astronauts, going into space to repair orbiting equipment becomes a challenge. for astronauts, going into space to repair orbiting equipment becomes tricky. for astronauts, going into space to repair orbiting equipment becomes challenging. for astronauts, going into space to repair orbiting equipment becomes frequent.

Which two pronouns in the paragraph have unclear antecedents? cleaning the closet yesterday i cleaned my closet and dusted it thoroughly. i found receipts in a few of my jeans. i folded them neatly and put them in my drawer. i found an old box decorated with ribbons and a pink bow. it still looked pretty and new. in the bottom drawer, there was a bottle of perfume that mom bought in sweden. the perfume is old, but it still has a fresh, flowery scent. next to the perfume there was an old postcard that dad sent when he visited china.