Read each of the following paragraphs and respond to the questions that follow by choosing the letter of the correct answer.
Visualization or guided imagery, involves creating mental pictures that calm you down and focus your mind. Some people use this technique to promote healing when they are ill. Visualization skills require practice and, in some cases, instruction by qualified health professionals. The regular practice of yoga may lower harmful compounds associated with stress that increase inflammation. In a recent study, “expert” yoga practitioners, with a year or two of yoga practice, had lower levels of markers of chronic inflammation than novices. Yoga may be beneficial because it increases flexibility and allows relaxation, which can lower stress.
Word(s) in the topic sentence that indicate(s) a specific pattern is/are
a. visualization.
b. chronic inflammation.
c. mental pictures.
d. regular practice may lower
d. regular practice may lower
You might also like to view...
"After being around for over a century, people still find television very entertaining"
a. is a fragment. b. is a rambling sentence. c. contains a misplaced or dangling modifier. d. is correct.
Identify each of the following items as either an introductory phrase or a dependent clause
Each morning, a. introductory phrase b. dependent clause
Comprensión oral. Vas a escuchar un pasaje sobre la situación política y social de los países hispanoamericanos. Antes de escucharlo, lee la lista de preguntas. Luego, escucha el pasaje y contesta las preguntas. Vas a escuchar el pasaje dos veces.Clcik here for audio.¿Con qué objeto han utilizado los guerrilleros los secuestros?
What will be an ideal response?
True or false: A fragment can be corrected by connecting the fragment to the sentence before or after it or by making the fragment into an independent clause.
a) true b) false