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1. Read this passage from Katherine Anne Porter’s short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”:

He could speak as much as he pleased.  It was like him to drop in and inquire about her soul as if it were a teething baby, and then stay on for a cup of tea and a round of cards and gossip.

What are the coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions that appear in this passage?

1. Read this passage from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick:
   
   
   

“Hist!  Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?”

“Take the bucket, will ye, Archy?  What noise do ye mean?”

“There it is again—there it is!  It sounds like two or three sleepers turning over, now!”

“Caramba!  Have done, shipmate, will ye?  It’s the three soaked biscuits ye eat for supper turning inside of ye—nothing else.  Look to the bucket!”

What are the prepositions and interjections that appear in this passage?

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