And if the offense was considered serious, the voice would say, "You will see, I am going to tell your mother." In a village so full of snitchers and busybodies you could get an extra ear-pull for any trivial breach of good manners – the buena educación which the adults prized so highly. —Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. The connotation of the underlined words shows that Ernesto thinks the villagers

Choose one of the topics below and use all five sentence patterns in a composition of at least 100 words. return to the lessons "patterns: inverted, compound parts, s/v/do" and "patterns: s/lv/pn, s/lv/pa, s/v/io/do" if you need to review the sentence patterns. you will be graded based on whether all five sentence patterns are present in your work. suggestions for topics: a. what if the sun exploded? b. what if every family owned a helicopter? c. what if each year were six months long instead of twelve? d. what if you were the president of the united states?