Tutor profile: Evan S.

Write out two sentences with the same subject, but make one a compound sentence, and one a compound-complex sentence.

Examples Compound sentence: "I went to school, and came home after." "My brother is tall, but my mother is short." Compound-Complex: "When I finished school, I went home because I was hungry."

What word or phrase could be used to describe the narrator in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man?" a. Omniscent b. Central, or First Person c. Third Person d. Unreliable

The answer is a, Central. While the narrator remains without a name for the entirety of the novel, he is otherwise straightforward in detailing the story of his own life, and while he does not have a name, he is reliable and speaking from a first-person point of view.

Which part of the following sentence serves as the modifier? "I am going to visit my friend who drove to Charleston today."

The answer is "who drove to Charleston today." The modifier of a sentence functions as an adverb or adjective that provides additional information about the subject of a sentence. In this case, the subject is "my friend" and the modifier, which presents more information about the friend, would be "who drove to Charleston today."