Read the paragraph about social media. social media outlets are often criticized as forums for unimportant postings and uniformed rants. though much of what is posted is conversational drivel, social media outlets also serve as springboards for entrepreneurs. creative people can advertise their designs or products at a low cost to a wider market than entrepreneurs could have imagined in previous generations. the internet is the ultimate free marketplace, allowing motivated individuals to share their wares with the world. what is the controlling idea? every entrepreneur should advertise one’s products on the internet. the internet has countless forums on which people share meaningless posts. social media has a valid purpose as an inexpensive, creative marketplace. advertising products on the internet is inexpensive compared to television.

Which sentence has the correct subject-verb agreement? most storms occurs at this time of year due to weather patterns. most storms occur at this time of year due to weather patterns.

Boss: oh no! that’s the phone again! secretary: blank boss: . a. shall i take it? b. will you answer it? c. can you do me a favor? d. may i hang it up?

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.