1 Complete the sentences with the Past Perfect form of the verbs in brackets.

1 Denise had been (be) a teacher before she
became a writer.

2 (...) you (...) (finish) your dinner before you
watched the match?

3 (...) you ever (...) (read) a play before?

4 | (...) (buy) a new laptop before I started the
new school.

5 They were worried because Jake (...)
(not arrive).

6 The teenagers (...) (not learn) any Chinese
before they went to Beijing.

Select the correct answer to which literary movement did ambrose bierce belong? a. romanticism b. realism c. naturalism d. neoclassicism

Which word best describes the author's tone in this excerpt from "that spot" by jack london? i don’t think much of stephen mackaye any more, though i used to swear by him. i know that in those days i loved him more than my own brother. if ever i meet stephen mackaye again, i shall not be responsible for my actions. it passes beyond me that a man with whom i shared food and blanket, and with whom i mushed over the chilcoot trail, should turn out the way he did. i always sized steve up as a square man, a kindly comrade, without an iota of anything vindictive or malicious in his nature. i shall never trust my judgment in men again. why, i nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the stewart; and he saved my life on the little salmon. and now, after the years we were together, all i can say of stephen mackaye is that he is the meanest man i ever knew. a. excited b. ironic c. indignant d. playful

Athesis statement can be controversial