Read the passage and examine the text in bold. Then, answer the question. Grandmother described our weather perfectly and poetically: "Here are the long heavy winds and breathless calms on the tilted mesas where dust devils dance, whirling up into a wide, pale sky. Here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it. This is a land of lost rivers, with little in it to love, yet, it is a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably." If it were not so, there would be no one to tell of its harshness, beauty, and power. Does the bolded portion contain an error?

The correct answer is: No correction needed.

Explanation:

This is the full question:

Read the passage and examine the text in bold. then, answer the question.

grandmother described our weather perfectly and poetically: "here are the long heavy winds and breathless calms on the tilted mesas where dust devils dance, whirling up into a wide, pale sky. here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it. this is a land of lost rivers, with little in it to love, yet, it is a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably." if it were not so, there would be no one to tell of its harshness, beauty, and power.

does the bolded portion contain an error? choose the correction if one is needed.

poetically; "here are

poetically, "here are

poetically "here are

no correction needed

The bolded part in the text is: "poetically: "here are"

In the text above, the colon was used to introduce the quoted words. The author was trying to quote his grandmother's words.

It requires no correction because in English, to quote a person's words, quotation marks must be used. Which was fulfilled in the text.

Also, to introduce the quote, a colon was used, which is the correct way of preceding a quote. Therefore, the bolded words are correct and need no explanation.

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.