Complete the following sentence:

Most political candidates try to gain ______ or support by campaigning and speaking to the public.

A. absolve

B. exhilaration

C. suffrage

D. occult

One way of combining sentences to make your writing more mature is by using a coordinating conjunction. This makes two sentences into a single, compound sentence - a sentence with two separate subjects and two separate verbs.

F: For

A: And

N: Not

B: But

O: Or

Y: Yet

S: So

If you are putting two complete sentences together with a coordinating conjunction, you need a comma before the coordinating conjunction.

Example: Andrew woke up late. Andrew made it to school on time

Andrew woke up late, yet he made it to school on time. (Two complete sentences joined by comma and "yet.")

 

2) You can also combine sentences by making one of them incomplete. If you are joining a complete sentence with an incomplete sentence. (e.g. a phrase that does not have both a subject, and verb), you don't need a comma before the coordinating conjunction.

 

As the missionary priest read the Scripture over the silent faithful who were praying.

1. The descriptive adjectives in this sentence as

 ⚪ a. Scripture, reverent, silent, faithful

 ⚪ b. Scripture, Passion, the hush

 ⚪ c. As, hush, silent, bowed

 ⚪ d. missionary, Scripture, reverent, silent

2. The proper attributive descriptive adjective i

 ⚪ a. As

 ⚪ b. Scripture

 ⚪ c. Passion

 ⚪ d. Passion of the Lord

3. The word faithful

 ⚪ a. is a limiting adjective

 ⚪ b. is a descriptive adjective

 ⚪ c. is a noun

 ⚪ d. is an objective complement

 

4. The word necessary is

 ⚪ a. a subjective complement

 ⚪ b. an objective complement 

 ⚪ c. a common limiting adjective

 ⚪ d. not an adjective

 

melancholy - adj. gloomy, sad, depressed

E.g.: Anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it.

avarice - n. insatiable greed for riches or wealth

E.g.: All her avarice was awakened at the mention of hidden gold, and she urged her husband to comply with the black man's terms, and secure what would make them wealthy for life.

usurer - n. one who lends money, at an unusually or unlawfully high rate of interest; a loan shark

E.g.: The devil proposed that Tom turn usurer, the devil being extremely anxious for the increase of usurers.

propitious - adj. helpful or advantageous; favorable

E.g.: At this propitious time of public distress did Tom Walker set up as usurer in Boston.

ostentation - n. A display meant to impress others; boastful showiness.

E.g.: Tom built himself a vast house, out of ostentation, but left he greater part of it unfinished and unfurnished, out of parsimony.