How many causes are listed in the paragraph below? in the last ten years, the homeschooling movement has grown dramatically. this is due to several causes. first, state governments have passed laws making it easier to homeschool, in large part due to the efforts of organizations like home school legal defense association. second, an increase in public school violence and hostility towards religious beliefs has convinced a number of parents to pull their children out and school them elsewhere. third, costs for private schooling have increased significantly, limiting parents' options elsewhere. fourth, studies on the effectiveness of homeschooling have shown that a large percentage of homeschool students perform well above the national average. these are just a few of the causes of the continued growth of this movement. three four five

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[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

In which sentence is the subjunctive mood correctly used? if she were impatient, she would not be suited for this work. they are ready to go to work now. she was impatient to get to work on time. he listens to instructions very carefully when at work.