Which statement best explains how Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time” reflects the author’s opposition to South African apartheid? The family’s consideration of racism when hanging their warning sign proves that they are not actually racist. The family’s refusal to feed the vagrants roaming around their neighborhood leads to their son’s tragedy. The family’s housekeeper and gardener could have prevented the tragedy in the end if they were better at their jobs. The family’s prejudice makes them take increasingly drastic security measures, which lead to their son’s tragedy.

True or false: a writer uses ellipses to indicate an omission or that something has been left out of a direct quote.

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.

In 250-300 words, explain how the theme of social justice is explored in the novel. {to kill a mockingbird}