Choose the sentence in which the underlined portion is correct. a) both emerson and thoreau expressed his radical views on individualism in writing. b) all of our american history class said that he thought jefferson was a good president. c) ask anybody who the first president of the united states was and they will say george washington. d) henry david thoreau was imprisoned for not paying a tax; he was proud to be one of the few who adhered to his principles.

D)Henry David Thoreau was imprisoned for not paying a tax; he was proud to be one of the few who adhered to his principles.

D is the only option that is written correctly. The phrase "one of the few" is singular. The pronoun "his" refers to this phrase and is also singular. Option A is incorrect because the subject "Both" is plural. This means that "his radical views" should be "their radical views". In option B "All" is plural. "He" should refer to all but it is singular, so it is incorrect. Option C is also incorrect. "they" refers to "anybody". However, "they" is plural and "anybody" is singular.

his humanity shines from every page as he bears witness to the tragedy which befell the jewish race at the hands of the nazis. wiesel was a romanian-born jew whose home town of sighet was occupied by the hungarians for most of the second world war. in may 1944, all the jews in the area were forced into cattle wagons and transported to auschwitz.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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