Why is it best to avoid proofreading during the revision process? A. Proofreading only focuses on minor or less important details in an essay. B. Proofreading only verifies the credibility of information in an essay. C. Revising provides the opportunity to change your main claim or thesis. D. Revising deals with issues like the structure and flow of an essay.

Read the excerpt from warriors don't cry. as we approached behind them, we could see only the clusters of white people that stretched for a distance of two blocks along the entire span of the school building. my mind could take in the sights and sounds only one by one: flashing cameras, voices shouting in my ears, men and women jostling each other, old people, young people, people running, uniformed police officers walking, men standing still, men and women waving their fists, and then the long line of uniformed soldiers carrying weapons just like in the war movies i had seen. which words create the mood in the excerpt? check all that apply.

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?

79 one theme in stowe’s uncle tom’s cabin is a)circle of lifeb)true christianityc)american ideals and realityd)families destroyed by slavery