Agentleman or a lady will always say " you" to a waiter, but nothing more. wine should be handed by the waiters after soup. to decline wine by covering the mouth of the wine-glass with the hand is an ill- bred gesture. say simply "not any, you," and the waiter will not fill your glass. do not eat as if you had good fare for the first time in your life--that is to say, do not eat ravenously, and do not eat in a noticeable way. never smack the lips when eating. never take a long, deep breath after you finish eating, as if the exercise had fatigued you. never make noises in your mouth or throat. never suck your teeth, or pass your tongue round the outside of your gums. which is the best summary statement for the passage? a) the passage gives advice to guests about how to design formal, engraved invitations for dinner parties. b) the passage gives advice to guests about the different types of people that show up at a dinner party. c) the passage gives advice to guests about the healthiest entrees to serve at a dinner party. d) the passage gives advice to guests about things that should and should not be done at a dinner party.

Leslie would probably have come with us if she didn’t work all summer. which is the verb phrase?

[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

What tone does this passage convey? sara thought about her options and sighed. she figured nothing could make her situation better. angry satirical humorous pessimistic