In John Steinbeck’s "The Turtle," how does the turtle help the wild oat seeds in the story?

It plants the seeds on the other side of the road.

It rescues the seeds from being eaten by animals.

It leaves the seeds in the road where they can fly off.

It gives them water to help them grow.

The correct answer is A

Explanation:

The turtle in the last paragraph drags soil over the oats which were already stuck in the ground thus planting them. This happened after all the melodrama of having to get the seed to the other side of the road.

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First sentence in the given passage is declarative sentence.

If one would combine first and second sentence, it would become compund sentence.

Explanation:

Brighton Beach Memoirs is a play written by Neil Simon. It is considered for some parts a semi-autobiography of the author.

The given passage talks about this play.

The first sentence of the passage is declarative sentence. A declarative sentence or assertive sentences are those statements that tend to give information or inform the audience about something. For instance, Mary loves reading books. This statement is declarative as it is giving information about Mary's likes.

In the same manner, the first statement of the passage is declarative as it is giving infomration about thoughts of some people about Eugene, the protagonist of the play.

If one would combine first and second sentence, it would become a compound sentence. A compound statement is a sentence that consists of two independent statement combined by a coordinating conjunction.

The first and second statement of the passage are two independent statements that can be combined using a coordinating conjuction.