Read the passage. the time was in the 1720s. colonists were living in south carolina. they petitioned england. they wanted forts built to their south. what is the best way to combine these sentences into one sentence? in the 1720s, colonists who were living in south carolina. petitioned england, they wanted forts built to their south. in the 1720s, colonists living in south carolina petitioned england to build forts to their south. in the 1720s, colonists who were living in south carolina petitioned england because they wanted forts built to their south. colonists living in south carolina in the 1720s petitioned england because they wanted forts built to their south.

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning