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What kind of sentence is the following example? before he started tp watch tv, he made sure that he had all of his favorite snacks (ice cream and chips), and he sure to get all of his homework finished.

Which is the most effective paraphrase of the passage "six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends" - the odyssey

How does the mother defend her child to the old duck