1. An increase in workers’ compensation (WC) insurance premiums has been observed in our company over the past 12 months.
2. In addition, employees have taken more sick days this year.
3. On March 1 you asked me to research some options to reduce WC claims and ameliorate the health of our employees.
4. I recommend that we introduce an employee fitness program in several stages, beginning in June.
5. With a fitness program, we can ensure the health and safety of each and every employee.
6. I offer my full support with implementing this program.
7. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions.
8. According to researchers, workplace fitness is important for many reasons.

Required:
a. How many examples of passive voice does your rough draft contain? Which sentences are they?
b. How many state-of-being verbs does your rough draft contain? Which sentences are they?
c. Which sentence contains an expletive?

Answer:

a. There is one example of a passive voice in the draft.  The passive voice is used in sentences 1.

b. There is only one state-of-being word in the draft.  It is in sentence 8.  In sentence 8, it explains how important workplace fitness is.

c. Sentence 7 contains an expletive.  It is the phrase "don't hesitate to."  The sentence could have been written as "Please, contact me with any questions," without the expletive.

Explanation:

a. Passive voice: In a passive voice, the action is performed on the subject, who receives the action, while in an active voice, the subject performs the action.

b. State-of-being verbs: are linking verbs that identify who or what a noun is or was.  They include "is," "am," "be," "been," "being," "was," "were," and "are."

c. Expletive is an empty word or phrase that conveys no additional or independent meaning.

2. When you categorize your note cards, what can you learn about the Information you've gathered?
if you have duplicate information
if you have information you don't need
if you have holes in your research
all of the above​

Growing marijuana for personal use is now legal. However, you are concerned about the consequences this may have in schools.​

please help me asap i beg you ill give you the brainlest whom ever answers first

Complete the following analogy:

Solace: ____________________:: Ostentatious : Showy

What are two tools you can use to begin your research?

You have recently visited visited a place while a famous person was there. In your letter you should include the following
• Describe where you were and what happened
• Explain what the famous person is doing
• Say how u felt about the experience

Which of these words is a preposition? The teacher asked some of the students to meet before class.

COMMONLIT
4.
PART B: Which of the following best supports the answer to PartA?
A "Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from
serious things. * (Paragraph 1)
B "As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly."(Paragraph 1)
С. ...he is not an evangelist, nor does he come round eating locusts and wild
honey (Paragraph 1)
D. doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mille (Paragraph 1)

Use your English
SI
IS
A Complete the text with the correct form of the words.
ملتا
27
TELL
اراده WILL
FREE
DANGER
BE
OUT
بلود
Dying to play
If I (1)
you that they killed the captain
of the losing team in Mayan football,
(2)
you believe me? It's true! For the
Maya, it was considered an honour to lose their
(3)
and be sacrificed to the gods!
This (4)
game was invented over 3,000
years ago. It (5)
a combination of
basketball and football and was an (6)
game. The ball was not allowed to touch the ground.
The (7)
bounced it off the walls with
their elbows, hips, knees or head, but using their hands
was against the rules, just as it is in football. To score a
point, the (8)
had to get the ball
through a stone hoop, in a similar way to basketball.
It required a lot of (9)
and was not a
game for children. As it was a very quick game, the players
had to be (10)
_. They also had to
in their
show great courage and (11)
abilities; after all, one of them would die if they
(12)
PLAY
COMPETE
CONCENTRATE
ATHLETE
CONFIDENT
LOSE​

Read the selection and answer the question. Excerpt from "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen (1) People find it curious that those without homes would rather sleep sitting up on benches or huddled in doorways than go to shelters. (2) Certainly some prefer to do so because they are emotionally ill, because they have been locked in before and they are [darned] if they will be locked in again. (3) Others are afraid of the violence and trouble they may find there. (4) But some seem to want something that is not available in shelters, and they will not compromise, not for a cot, or oatmeal, or a shower with special soap that kills the bugs. (5) "One room," a woman with a baby who was sleeping on her sister's floor, once told me, "painted blue." (6) That was the crux of it; not size of location, but pride of ownership. (7) Painted blue. (8) Sometimes I think we would be better off if we forgot about the broad strokes and concentrated on the details. (9) Here is a woman without a bureau. (10) There is a man with no mirror, no wall to hang it on. (11) They are not homeless. (12) They are people who have no homes. (13) No drawer that holds the spoons. (14) No window to look out upon the world. Which of the following is the main idea of the selection? A Shelters do not help homeless people. B Homelessness is hard for people to understand. C Shelters should allow homeless people to paint the walls. D Homelessness cannot be fixed just by providing physical housing.

A) Complete the sentences with appropriate modal verbs.
1. ____________ you ____________ to get up early?
2. They’re having a baby. They ____________ have to buy a bigger house.
3. I’m sorry I ____________ help you with your homework.
4. ____________ we go out tonight?
5. Why don’t you apply for that job? You ____________ get it.
6. I think we ____________ do something to stop pollution.
7. ____________ I borrow this book?
8. My wife is waiting for me. I ____________ not be late.

Read the excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Death by Black Hole.”

If you stumbled upon a black hole and found yourself falling feet-first toward its center, then as you got closer, the black hole’s force of gravity would grow astronomically. Curiously, you would not feel this force at all because, like anything in free fall, you are weightless. What you do feel, however, is something far more sinister. While you fall, the black hole’s force of gravity at your two feet, they being closer to the black hole’s center, accelerates them faster than does the weaker force of gravity at your head. The difference between the two is known officially as the tidal force, which grows precipitously as you draw nearer to the black hole’s center. For Earth, and for most cosmic places, the tidal force across the length of your body is minuscule and goes unnoticed. But in your feet-first fall toward a black hole the tidal forces are all you notice.

Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the idea that falling into a black hole would be excruciatingly painful?
Curiously, you would not feel this force at all because, like anything in free fall, you are weightless.
What you do feel, however, is something far more sinister.
For Earth, and for most cosmic places, the tidal force across the length of your body is minuscule and goes unnoticed.
But in your feet-first fall toward a black hole the tidal forces are all you notice.

Part A: What was the sculptor's intention when creating the statue? (In "OZYMANDIAS")

Options

To create rubbish that was not built to last.

To mock a king and show the world that over time he did not matter.

To make a king to be marveled at and honored.

To create a masterpiece, but also to make a commentary about the poor at the time.

Part B: What line best supports the answer to question 3A?

Options

"Tell that its sculptor well those passions read/Which yet survive" (line 6, 7)

"Near them, on the sand/Half sunk, a shattered visage lies" (lines 4, 5)

"I met a traveller from an antique land/Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone" (line 1, 2)

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings" (line 10)

Which is an example of antiracist behavior?
A. Vilma says she likes her own curly hair.
B. Vilma covers her skin with lotion so she won't get burned when
she plays outside during the summer.
C. Vilma teaches someone that it's wrong to make assumptions
about a person based on the color of his or her skin.
D. All of the above

4. What is the good news for Nya? What's she excited about? (check all that
apply)
*
Will attend school in another country
Doesn't have to walk a long time to get water
Gets to join the rebel forces
Learn to read and write
She gets to stay and live in one place
Opposes any effort to drill on their land

Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence in the story best indicates that it Is an emergence creation story?
In the beginning all men lived together in the lowest depths, In a reglon of darkness and moisture; their bodles were misshapen and
horrible, and they suffered great misery.
By appealing to Myuingwa (a vague conception of the god of the Interior) and Baholinkonga (plumed serpent of enormous size, genius of
water) their old men obtalned a seed from which sprang a magic growth of cane.
The cane grew to miraculous height and penetrated through a crevice in the roof overhead, and mankind climbed to a higher plane. Here
was dim light and some vegetation. Another magic cane brought them to a higher plane, with more light and vegetation, and here was the
creation of the animal kingdom. Singing was always the chlef magic for creating anything. In like manner, they rose to the fourth stage or
Earth; some say by a pine tree, others say through the hollow cylinder of a great reed or rush.
This development was accompanied by singing-some say by the Magic Twins, the two little war gods; others say by the mockingbird. At
any rate, It is Important to observe that when the song ran out, no more people could get through and many had to remain behind.
However, the outlet through which man came has never been closed, and Myulngwa sends through It the germs of all living things.

Tell the disadvantages of the habit of stating. This is good. What were the disadvantages of using this comment.

thank goodness essay​

How does the last sentence of this excerpt from H. G. Wells's The Time Machine affect the reader?
As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world-masi
whole secret of these delicious people. Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population hadsucceeded too
their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary. That would account for the abandoned ruins. Very simple was my
and plausible enough- as most wrong theories are!
O A
It encourages readers to always look for the simplest explanation.
• B.
It makes the reader aware that the Time Traveller will probably meet a tragic end.
It hints to the reader that unexpected changes in the Time Traveller's view may follow.
It enables the reader to identify the Time Traveller's motives for traveling to the future.
It makes the reader aware of the possibility that the Time Traveller may be lying,
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Which of the following is not a coordinating conjunction?
yet
so
for
neither

In each of the following sets of words underline the one word in each set that does not belong, then write a sentence explaining why it does not fit. You may need to use a dictionary.
1. vile, abominable, atrocious, spirited
2. gumption, indignant, initiative, ingenuity
3. interjection, fatigue, exhaustion, lethargy
4. pestilence, calcifications, courge, plague
5. fractious, irritable, unassertive, peevish
6. immodest, improper, incoherent, indecent

PLS ANSWER ASAP WILL MARK BRAINLIEST!!! Why does Captain Jaggery order Mr. Hollybrass to whip Zachariah?

a.) because Mr. Cranick blamed Zachariah

b.) to make a point about who is in charge

c.) to punish Charlotte

d.) because Zachariah led the mutiny

Ammar nervously opened his mailbox and slowly pulled out the day’s mail. A moment later he burst into the house with a shout, excitedly waving a thick envelope from State College in one hand."

What is the most likely subtext of the reading?

What is the BEST way to write the italicized word in the following sentence?
Not only would the people who received the direct service benefit, but everyone in the community would feel the impact

receive

Leave it as is.

will receive

would receive

Help please! I am stuck and need help on this question. :)

How do you feel about someone being able to have access to guns?

The power of citizens journalism

1. You are writing for a newspaper near this accident. Write a lead for this afternoon’s paper. WHO: Amtrak train called the Colonial WHAT: Collided with three Conrail locomotives on a switch that merges four tracks into two WHEN: 1:30 p.m. yesterday WHERE: Baltimore, Maryland WHY: Larry Case, Amtrak spokesman: The Conrail diesels, like the Amtrak, were northbound. The Conrail had apparently run a stop sign. OTHER: At least 15 dead, 175 injured. Worst accident in Amtrak’s 132-year history.

What does this simile from "Dreams" communicate about dreams?

What dreams we have and how they fly
Like rosy clouds across the sky;

A. Dreams that go unfulfilled may cause anger.
B. Dreams can be as attractive as clouds lit by a sunrise.
C. Dreams may slip from one's grasp as clouds move across the sky.
D. Dreams that cause the sensation of flying among the clouds are fulfilled.

IF YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION I WILL GIVE YOU A BUNCH OF POINT PLEASE!!!

4. What are Macbeth's arguments to himself against killing Duncan?
-a. Macbeth is Duncan's kinsman and subject. Duncan is a good and popular king;
his death would bring sorrow to Scotland.
-b. There are too many witnesses in the castle. He could never get away with it.
-c. Macbeth doesn't really have the ambition to be king. He is doing this to please
his wife. He may be able to change her mind.
-d. If anyone found out he did it, they would just kill him. He is better off being a
Thane and being alive.

A. Analyze the sentences and pick out the adjectives. Place the adjectives in
the correct column in the chart below.
1. The scientists found an expensive new cure for the disease.
2. My coffee is in a small English teacup.
3. The two talented artists amused the guests with their paintings.
4. Do not throw away the five empty water bottles.
5. The intelligent young Filipino scholar graduated from Harvard.