Answer:
<em>When an author makes a </em><u><em>claim</em></u><em>, (s)he is stating something which might or might not be true. It must be argued. Example: Mary wrote, "I am the best musician in the school."</em>
Explanation:
A claim is an assertion an author or speaker makes to tell something is true but without providing evidence or proof about it, so other people might not believe it because it may be false.
The best summation is answer choice C
Answer: On October 1st, 1975, my mother was born.
Explanation: There are no answers to the choices you have but this is how you write it.
Answer:
"Provisional drivers could each save up to £500 on their car insurance by undertaking advanced driving lessons," the government has confirmed.
"We want people to go on improving their driving skills throughout their driving careers," said David Ashworth, a junior minister at the Department for Transport. "This is about creating the right sort of education and incentivising people to do it."
Explanation:
You haven't provided the complete question, but I found a similar one online. I assume that your task is to correct punctuation, especially quotation marks.
Quotation marks are used in direct speech - when you want to relay someone's words in the exact way they were spoken. Quoted words will be framed by quotation marks. In this case, the reporting clause (the part that doesn't contain quoted words) will be separated from quoted words by a comma. Commas and periods are always included inside the quotation marks, as you can see in the Answer section.
Answer: C. To reject or treat with disgust.
Explanation: denotation is the literal meaning of a word, the one that we can find in a dictionary, connotation is the meaning given by the context of the word, or also by the readers based on their emotions or personal experiences. In the given excerpt the connotation or meaning from the context of the word "spurn" is to reject or treat with disgust, we can infer that by noticing that the excerpt in general have a negative tone about fate, death and hope.
