Linking verbs
underline the complete verbs once and the complements twice. label the senteng
terns s-lv-pa or s-lv-pn. above each word of the sentence pattern, write its labe
the mockingbird has been the official state bird of florida and texas since 1921.
2. thirty species of mockingbirds are native to the western hemisphere.
3. the northern mockingbird, or the common mockingbird, has become simply the
mockingbird.
4. this particular bird grows large quickly.
5. mockingbirds appear gray in color with white patches on the wings.

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explanation: skate fast eat as$

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.

a. they have shared matter.