Write about your experience with grammar. Some questions you might consider answering are: 1) When was the first time you remember somebody telling you about grammar? 2) When, if ever, did you seriously study grammar in school? 3) If you did study grammar, was it effective or ineffective? 4) If you didn't study grammar, how easy or difficult has it been to meet your teacher's expectations? 5) Do you feel like grammar is something that you'll ever be able to master? 6) Do you feel like grammar is something you should have to master?

Read this excerpt from leah missbach day's foreword to wheels of change. bicycles have long played a role in my life. as a young woman, i rode one year-round before i had a car. but it was later in adulthood that the bicycle became more than a source of transportation for me. the bicycle actually began to truly shape the way i saw the world. what is the author's purpose for including this in the foreword?

American history (is, are) studying the american colonies.

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.