3. Reread these sentences from the passage. We worked hard to make our farm profitable and in time were able to hire convicts who had
recently been freed to work the land with us. My father bought more land with his profits and
became a respectable member of the community. I took on more and more carpentry work until
could earn a living at my trade.
Use context clues to figure out the meaning of profitable and write it on the line below. Then
circle a word or phrase you used as a clue to the meaning.
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I’n a rough draft, where should the main idea first appear in the paper

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.