Read the excerpt from "Return Flight." The crate was used to move him back and forth between the myriad enclosures that made up his strange life on the ground. These creatures seemed to like their enclosures. They spent most of their time inside one kind or another. He didn't understand it. If he hadn't found himself at the mercy of these cage lovers, he would be soaring in the wide open space of the sky, forever free of any kind of container.

According to the excerpt, the crate is most likely a symbol of

civilization.
wilderness.
injury.
love.

When the subject of a sentence performs the action in the sentence the verb in the sentence is in the what ?

Fortify is a verb that means “to protect and strengthen.” a fortifications is a that means something that protects.

In the real world, feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. he came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. he considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.” if a company habitually paid below 80 percent, feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: the cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year. unfortunately, the number of bagels that disappear without being paid for has also gone up. don’t let that continue. i don’t imagine that you would teach your children to cheat, so why do it yourselves? the excerpt serves as which type of support for the authors’ argument? a claim an example a conclusion a counterclaim