Which of the following is a compound sentence?(1 point)
It was a beautiful day, so we decided to go to the zoo.
To get to the zoo, we took the train and a cab.
Before we left, I bought a hat at the gift shop.
We saw elephants, lions, seals, and an aardvark.
Which of the following is a complex sentence?(1 point)
The family made sure they packed warm clothes before their trip up north.
Ellie had been to the mountains, but her brother had never seen them.
Ellie wants to go back and eventually live in the mountains someday.
Her brother said they would be boring, but he absolutely loved them.
Authors will vary their sentence structure to make their writing ______.(1 point)
more complex
more interesting
more simple
more biographical
The connotation of a word is the ____________.(1 point)
way it is read out loud.
sentence structure it is used in.
way the author uses it.
feeling associated with it.