Read the second stanza of "At the Sea-Side” by Robert Louis Stevenson. My holes were empty like a cup. In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more. What is the main idea of this stanza? The sea forces the speaker to stop playing in the sand. The sea ruins all of the speaker’s sandcastles. The sea covers the speaker’s belongings with water. The sea is filling up the holes the speaker dug.

“skateboarding is a sport combining grace, courage and skill, and here we see it being born.” based on this passage, what inference can you make about the author’s opinion of skateboarding? a. the author does not think skateboarding is a ‘real’ sport. c. the author feels skateboarding should be illegal. b. the author feels skateboarding is only appealing to very young children. d. the author respects and appreciates skateboarding as a sport.