Which sentence is written in passive voice? wispy clouds floated in a clear blue sky. the photographs had been taken by a friend of my grandfather's. rust had ruined the little red wagon. a siren cut the night's silence.

Read the following claim. people likely will continue making new year's resolutions despite often being unable to follow through on them. which selection from the article provides the best support for this statement?

Speaking rapidly in a large gymnasium causes your words to run together; making them hard to distinguish. true false

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.