TOO MANY/TOO MUCH 1.There are noisy and nosy children in the garden.
2. There is furniture in this living-room!
3. You eat toffees and drink coffee!
4. You write e-mails and read advertisements.
5. You give me useless advice!

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive