Which sentence is better? "a crumbling red rose he gave her, with a promise and a kiss." or "a crumbling red rose he had given her, with a promise and a kiss."

nobody knows everything, but parents are normally more experienced than their children based off of worldly experience despite the fact that a child might think that they know better than their parent in any given situation this might just be caused by ignorance and lack of experience.

according to the college board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2017–2018 school year was $34,740 at private colleges, $9,970 for state residents at public colleges, and $25,620 for out-of-state residents attending public universities.

he suspenses the reader as the poems go on as we see in "the raven"