What is the MOST LIKELY purpose of this excerpt based on the language that is used?
A) to inform the reader about the need for teachers
B) to share a reflective story from the writer's life
C) to convincingly argue for increased teacher salaries
D) to encourage college students to become English teachers

“When I decided about a hundred years ago to become an English teacher, I thought I was going easy on myself, ‘You’ve been speaking and writing English for over two decades already,” I told myself, “So how hard could it be to teach others to speak and write it well?’ Not long after I taught my first class, however, I realized that I didn’t know English as well as I thought I did.”

Which lines from the speech best supports this topic sentence? and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied? " and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. we cannot walk alone. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. and so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. and so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire. let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of new york. let freedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania.

Which statement correctly describes the verb function in this sentence? the word “dancing” is a verb that functions as a noun. the word “dancing” is a verb that functions as an adjective. the word “becoming” is a verb that functions as a noun. the word “becoming” is a verb that functions as an adjective.

Timed. from kate chopin the awakening despite the opinions of seemingly everyone else, madame lebrun likes which of her sons better