Question

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

A. The football team repeats their motivational chant before every game, “We’re going to win, win, win!”

B. The football team repeats their motivational chant before every game: “We’re going to win, win, win!”

C. The football team repeats their motivational chant: Before every game, “We’re going to win, win, win!”

D. The football team repeats their motivational chant: Before every game: “We’re going to win, win, win!”

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Certainly a colon is used here, so eliminate the first and third choices. There's no need to separate the first sentence with a colon, so eliminate the last answer choice. B is right.

Answer 3

phantasm

noun

phan·tasm

something that a person sees in his or her mind

Which sentence uses the word phantasm correctly, according to the dictionary entry?


A. What he thought he saw in the upstairs window turned out to be a phantasm.


B. The phantasm chased José and Carla into the street and cornered them in the alley.


C. Remarkably, the phantasm returned all of her clothes to the closet.

D. Bianca wanted to phantasm the unpleasant thought permanently from her mind.

Answer 4

This word is a noun. Eliminate the last answer choice as it's used as a verb in that answer choice and cannot be correct.
Answer choice C seems to personify the word. This also cannot be correct, so eliminate C.
Answer choice B does not match the definition either. Eliminate B.
You're left with the first answer choice.

Answer 5

Read this sentence from the passage:

For three or four centuries they have remained upon this small promontory, on which they had settled like a flight of seabirds, without mixing with the Marseillaise population, intermarrying, and preserving their original customs and the costume of their mother-country as they have preserved its language.

Why does the author use the term mother-country rather than homeland or native land, which have very similar denotations in this sentence from The Count of Monte Cristo?


A. Mother-country emphasizes the deep emotional connection the people felt to the place from which they came.

B. Homeland or native land would have had weaker, more negative nuances than mother-country.

C. Mother-country emphasizes that many of the members of this small community are biological relatives, as Mercédès and Fernand are.

D. Homeland or native land would have sounded more old-fashioned and less familiar than mother-country.

Answer 6

I believe the answer will be that the word was chosen due to its emotional connection to the people. Answer choice A.