Which answer corrects the shift in verb tense in the sentence?

the singer practice every day and learned all the songs.

a.
the singer had practiced every day and learns all the songs.

b.
the singer practiced every day and learned all the songs.

c.
the singer will practice every day and learned all the songs.

d.
the singer will practice every day and had learned all the songs.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. for a long time she held her neck erect; then her head sank, slowly. her ribs swelled with a mighty heave and she went over. as it is used in this excerpt from “the man who was almost a man,” the phrase “went over” most likely means died escaped jumped vomited

Which statement best explains how the setting affects the meaning of the story? a. the water and wave motif conveys the queasy feeling the narrator has when walking alone at night. b. the firefly light conveys a feeling of nostalgia for long summer evenings spent with family. c. the phrase whispering and murmurs" suggests that the main character has fits of madness. d. the comparison of the street to a graveyard suggests that something is terribly wrong with society.

How does douglass contrast his childhood on colonel lloyd’s plantation with this arrival on baltimore at the auld’s?