Determine the sentence type. 1.By the age of nine, Phillis Wheatley learned to read and write English, and she became literate in Latin, Greek, and the Bible. A. complex sentence B. simple sentence C. compound sentence D. compound-complex sentence

2.Phyllis Wheatley began writing poetry at the age of 13, modeling her work on the English poets of the time, and her collection of poetry was published in London where she was introduced to members of the British society. A. simple sentence B. complex sentence C. compound-complex sentence D. compound sentence

3.Phillis Weatley was the first published African-American poet. A. complex sentence B. simple sentence C. compound sentence D. compound-complex sentence

4.In 1775, Phyllis Wheatley published a letter and poem celebrating George Washington, who invited her to his home in Cambridge as thanks for the tribute and support. A. simple sentence B. compound sentence C. compound-complex sentence D. complex sentence

5.The rules of formation of sentences and the patterns in creating phrases and sentences is called. A. morphology B. syntax C. phonology D. structure E. sentence

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant