Explanation: Bill is severely injured and dies in the hospital before being able to reveal anything he knows about the murders. After the bombing, Governor Jack C. Walton of Oklahoma sends his top state investigator, Herman Fox Davis, to Osage County so that he can solve the murder cases.
Answer:
First, you have to find the right kind of rock for your hard hammer. Then, you have to learn how to strike the flint correctly.
Explanation:
Transitional tags that show chronology reveal the time order of events. Some of these tags include; Prior to, to begin with, henceforth, first, second, third, last time, at the outset, then, etc. In the selected sentence above, transitional tag showing chronological order is the word, 'First'.
This tag gives the reader information about what happened at the beginning of a process. 'Then', is another transitional tag that reveals what happens next in the process.
She kept her calendar up to date so she wouldn’t forget anything coming up.
If there were adults on the island then the adults would be telling them what to do and they wouldn't make their own decisions.
Answer:
The best answer is c. She's confident that her daughter's attitude is the only reason she's not a genius.
Explanation:
Suyuan is the narrator's mother in Amy Tan's short story "Two Kinds". She is a Chinese woman who decides to make a child prodigy out of her daughter Jing-mei, sort of a Chinese Shirley Temple. She quizzes her on several subjects, changes her hair to make it curly and then short, and finally makes her take piano lessons. At first, Jing-mei is excited about the idea of being a prodigy. She likes to picture all the attention she'll receive, and believes problems won't exist if she is famous. She is not, however, willing to work hard to accomplish things. She chooses to be lazy and, since her mother is constantly nagging her, she chooses to fail. She even says she had the right to be a disappointment. She succeeds in letting her mother down at her piano recital, where she plays terribly. Suyuan is not fooled by her daughter's performance. She knows Jing-mei could have done better if she had been willing to apply herself. Years later, when Jing-mei is already grown up, Suyuan gives her the piano as a present and remarks precisely that:
"Well, I probably can't play anymore," I said. "It's been years." "You pick up fast," my mother said, as if she knew this was certain. “You have natural talent. You could be a genius if you want to." "No, I couldn't." "You just not trying," my mother said. And she was neither angry nor sad. She said it as if announcing a fact that could never be disproved. "Take it," she said.
