What conclusion cannot be drawn? jackson’s separation of the crowd to allow mrs. delacroix through at the beginning of the lottery is an example of foreshadowing. jackson clearly states in the opening paragraph that the gathering takes less than two hours. jackson still keeps the reader in suspense by waiting until the very end of the story to reveal the purpose of the stones. shirley jackson published this short story in 1948.

In this project you will get practice writing sentences of more complexity. here is your goal for this assignment: write sentences containing present and past participles. write sentences containing gerunds. write ten sentences using the following terms as participles: feel, ride, smoke, pray, kneel, sacrifice, steal, talk, hit, and freeze. five of the terms must be used as present participles, while the other five must be used as past participles. then choose five of these verbs to write five sentences containing gerunds or gerund phrases. for these, identify the noun function of each gerund. your project will be graded based on the following: your attention to the instructions given above use of proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, and sentence construction (commonly called "conventions") requirements.