How to gain focus on class? How to understand what I'm reading

Select the sentence that contains a noun phrase. After they tied their boots, the hikers walked toward the river. Suddenly, they heard cracking sounds in the underbrush behind them. They froze. Whatever was behind them stopped moving, too.

I had not finished the dishes before the visitors arrived. Which is the subordinating conjunction? A. had not finished B. arrived C. the visitors D. before

Soda says to his brothers, "If we don't have each other, we don't have anything. If you don't have anything, you end up like Dallas ... and I don't mean dead, either. I mean like he was before. And that's worse than dead." What does he mean

Hich of the following is an example of a setting? A. a fifteen-year-old girl and her brother B. a fight between two close friends C. the North Carolina shore in 1951 D. a raging, uncontrolled fire in a pet store

Which three lines in this poem indicate that the poetic speaker refuses to be beguiled by love any longer?

Have you ever read Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events? You A Of events

Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone. Gene Johnson, the Ajax of this biological war, paced back and forth across the loading dock among a pile of camouflaged military trunks-his stockpile of gear from Kitum Cave.

Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground.

Which sentence uses the active voice? My research paper is being finished two days early. My research paper was finished two days early. I finished my research paper two days early.

The old swimmin hole the first stanza of the poem