Circle the conjunctions. In the blank write coord. if the conjunction is coordinating.

Write corr. if the conjunction is correlative. Write sub. if the conjunction is subordinate.

sub. We will leave for vacation as soon as the tickets arrive.

sub. 1. While many people have watched a marathon race, few have ever competed in one.

coord. 2. It’s Friday night, and I have to stay home to clean my room.

corr. 3. Neither Sasha nor her brother could locate the car.

coord. 4. We will visit Washington, D. C., or Williamsburg, Virginia, in June.

sub. 5. Although I prefer apples, I also like strawberries.

corr. 6. Both Jason and Eric made the basketball team.

sub. 7. Whenever the parents leave for work, the children throw a temper tantrum.

sub. 8. The fans were quiet until the golfer putted.

irving effectively uses emotional responses to create suspense in the story.irving’s tone creates expectations for the reader, which in turn create suspense.irving’s suspense would have been more effective with more vivid details.irving’s story is not suspenseful

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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.

constantly changes their schedule.

always on phone a lot more than normal.

i would believe it would be b., the author wants to draw the reader deeper into the experience