It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. a thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. and this was the way life was forever on the planet venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.

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Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence (mark all that the ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun. the suffix -ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective. the suffix -ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun.

When hamlet shows his mother a picture of king hamlet and a picture of claudius, he tells her to look at the "counterfeit presentment of two brothers." in shakespeare's day, counterfeit meant a "portrait" or "picture." what does counterfeit mean today?

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.