The next question refers to the following paragraph. select the transition that best fits the blank.

the kite festival once marked the arrival of spring in pakistan. people gathered with their handmade kites and battled over whose kite could fly .
competition was fierce. people spoke of nothing else in the days that admiring the winner and promising themselves that one day, their own kite would fly proudly over the town.
but, unfortunately that was the kite festival has been banned since 2007.

in sentence 3, select the transition that best fits the blank.

in the past
in the future
tomorrow
yesterday

i believe its "in the past" but im not sure

the group received an extra pound of butter for christmas.

the annex was delighted to hear that we'll all be receiving an extra quarter pound of butter for christmas.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.

i don't see it in your profile.