Required information Overuse of Be Verbs
For each of the following sentences, choose the revision that
replaces the be verb with an active verb. Some sentences may
need more than one verb change, so be sure to choose the option
that replaces all be verbs with active verbs.
EXAMPLE:
The contradictory clues were a puzzle to the detective.
The contradictory clues puzzled the detective.
Historians are generally in agreement that the Egyptians were the inventors of sailing around 3000
BCE.

bro we need more information. how are we supposed to answer this?

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

xd

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