Editing Challenge: Choppy sentences!
Combine the following fragments and/or short sentences into one or two longer, more fluid sentences. Use what you've
learned about transitions and prepositions! Don't forget capitalization and punctuation!
• The tornado struck.
. It struck without warning.
. It caused damage.
• The damage was extensive.
• No lives were lost.
• Everyone was safe.

Which of the following best explains why the author chose the compare-and-contrast structure for paragraph 2

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

In the play "sorry wrong number"which part of the story can you find heightened tension and suspense?