"There was a car in the back drive, an estate car with a jumble of flower-arranging paraphernalia in the back. A middle aged woman was sitting in the driver’s seat, taking notes. Laura said, "Wendy."

Wendy said, "I was perfectly happy, sitting here. Gave me a chance to do the hospital-volunteer transport rota. How are you?"
PS: I am neither a native English speaker nor a student. Please be respectful in your answers. If you are here to tease people with prejudice, please leave.

apparently she is saying that she was OK with not doing anything because it gave her the free time to fill out the transport schedule for hospital volunteers.

While I was searching for a good college I found one web-site that offers you to browse a ton of
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is absolutely free .

http://EducationFindr.com

You should try it

Hope I’ll help

A. Having been away in London for two years, Conrad was
happy to see Denise.
B. The phone directory was hastily searched by Conrad.
C. Conrad trembled with anxiety and anticipation as he
pressed Denise’s doorbell.
D. It was believed by some that Conrad’s father had been a
war hero.

2. Which of the following is a simple sentence?

A. Karen and David arrived at the airport at 3:35 P.M. and
took a taxi to their hotel.
B. I went to the airport, but I was too late to meet them.
C. When I realized I was too late, I called David’s cell
phone and made arrangements to meet them in town.
D. I got to the airport late because the traffic was
so terrible.

3. In which of the following sentences do you find a comma or commas used correctly?

A. After a fire at their home, Carlie and her mother rented a house in Glendale,
Arizona from November 14, 2007 to January 28, 2008.
B. William of Orange, arrived in England in 1688, to claim the English throne from
James II.
C. Claire’s plum pudding was mainly distinctive, for its absence of plums.
D. Christopher Wren, a contemporary of Isaac Newton and John Locke, was the
architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral.

4. Which of the following sentences is without any surface errors?

A. I reluctently gave the hampster to my cousin because I was afraid Teddy, my cat,
would attack it.
B. Mr. Campbell gave copies of his novel to Ruth and me.
C. The town is located near just a few miles from lake Ontario.
D. It’s up to Georgia and I who drives the car, whether Carl likes it or not.

5. In the process of revision, your main objective is to

A. demonstrate correct grammar.
B. establish proper tone.
C. clarify your ideas.
D. explain your essay’s purposes.

6. Choosing a good reviewer for your writing means finding someone who

A. will concentrate on your ideas and how well you support them.
B. is a close friend and will give you a positive review.
C. knows everything about writing and will find every mistake.
D. concentrates on correcting your spelling and grammar errors.

7. A judicial decision handed down in court uses the _______ level of diction.

A. informal C. legal
B. popular D. formal

8. Which of the following sentences uses a coordinating conjunction in a
compound sentence?

A. We fired our old housekeeper, who we thought had stolen Grandma’s rings;
we later regretted it.
B. The budget payment is much higher than we anticipated, but the price of heating
oil has skyrocketed this year.
C. Out in the yard, the children shouted loudly and threw silly insults at each other.
D. My aunt, who usually behaves like a queen, was suddenly asking—no, begging—
for help.

9. Which of the following sentences uses parallelism effectively?

A. The large plant-eating dinosaurs were quite slow, rather stupid, and
extremely hungry.
B. The Red Sox fans screamed, yelled, and were applauding wildly.
C. The report was good because it was factual and offered many details.
D. Laura spent all her time gardening and arranging flowers, when she wasn’t in a
shoe store to shop.

10. Which of the following is a good rule to follow when proofreading an essay?

A. Scan the essay twice, once for organization and once for surface errors.
B. Read the essay aloud to hear where words are missing or awkward phrasing or
grammatical errors occur.
C. Use the computer’s spell-check and grammar-check functions to be sure you catch
any errors.
D. Ask your best friend to critique your essay.

1. C
2. D
3. D
4. Im not quite sure but they all have problems A i think
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. A
9. A
10. B

My brother & his wife used them for theirs and a friend of hers did the flowers, they were very nice and you really couldn’t tell the difference if you didn’t know and well.. I still have my bm bouquet 7 years later.

What I have been thinking of doing is using artificial flowers for the bridesmaids & brides bouquets and the decorations at the church and using fresh flowers for the mens boutonnieres and ladies corsages and fresh flowers for the centerpieces at the reception.

I’m not sure how much a savings that really would be or if I’d be better off just doing fresh flowers for it all?

I know to save on costs I could get fresh flowers from places like Sam’s Club, Costco and other bulk/wholesale places, but I don’t know the first thing about arranging flowers, I’m not all that crafty.

I really think that this is a once in a life time thing. I’m not saying splurge on expensive flowers but I do think that you should pay a little bit more and get all real flowers. I think if you have some real and some silk that you will be able to tell the difference. I know saving money is important (im planing my own wedding) but I recommend using real flowers. They look better and can be arranged so pretty. I guess its up to you. I would recommend having a florist arrange a set of real flowers and an identical set of silk flowers and you look at them and decide what you think will look best for you special day!

Any tips on how to arrange colors, flower types, designs, etc?
Oh, and I’m going to be planting drought-hearty flowers.

I design using a mix of foliage types and plant heights as well as colour schemes, as this adds even more depth and interest to a flower beds. Many plants are lovely to feel, due to interesting textures, so look out for incorporating interesting leaves, as well as foliage scents, once you’ve done your main planning.

You could have single colour beds which work incredibly well – I like red and white beds, and the white can have a cooling effect in summer time. Generally, if you want to choose complementary colours, the same rules apply as for example decorating. Complementary colours may also be contrasting, and I love purples or blues and yellows together, for example.

So, having a master plan of my garden, and what I want to achieve, I’d then start off selecting the colours by the location of the bed – some may work better in some locations than others. Then from my colour scheme determine which plants could achieve that, and from those which will give me the height variation and foliage mix that would work best for me.

You could also decide to have decidedly different feels for some beds too, such as bright striking colours and contrasts in some, and softer pastels in others.

Using a tool that artists and designers use would be helpful, so that you find the colour mixes that work for you. There’s a simple page of information here – http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theory-intro.htm

The other tip I’d add is to look at how you can incorporate patterns too, so that you have your mix of curves and straight shapes. Some of us like formality, whereas this may appear to rigid to others, and I generally use a more organic, flowing feel to the garden that I design. We’re all so unique that we each like may be distasteful to the next – I’d encourage you to go for the schemes that please you.

Overall, there is now such an abundance of plants for us to choose from that we can really get creative in our designing. If you’re good with plants, then it’s only about forming your colour combinations, textures and overall plan. If you’re less knowledgeable about plants, then I’d encourage you to get some advice upon which plants will thrive in your varied garden spots, so that all of your plants will flourish in the types of places that they thrive in, sunny, dry, shaded, boggy etc,

Hope this helps. Good luck! Rob

"If you were planting 10 flowers in a row and 5 of them were red, 3 of them were yellow, and 2 of them were purple, in how many different looking arrangements could the 10 flowers be arranged?"

Dear fournier,

There are ten positions in the row you are planting. Imagine that you decide where to plant the red flowers first, and that flowers are not distinguished by any other features. Then there are C(10, 5) different placements possible for these five flowers, where C(n,k) = n! / [k! (n - k)!] (known as the binomial coefficient, which is the number of ways that exactly k items can be chosen from a set of n items). This leaves five positions for the other flowers. If you decide where to plant the yellow flowers next, then there are C(10 – 5, 3) = C(5, 3) different placements for these flowers, given the positions of the red flowers. The remaining purple flowers go into the last two positions, so there is only one placement left for them, given the positions of the red and yellow flowers. (You can express this mathematically as C(10 – 5 – 3, 2) = C(2, 2) = 1.) If you multiply together these ways of placing each color of flower, then you obtain the total number of different-looking arrangements:

C(10, 5) C(10 – 5, 3) C(10 – 5 – 3, 2)
= C(10, 5) C(5, 3) C(2, 2)
= (10! / [5! (10 - 5)!]) (5! / [3! (5 - 3)!]) (2! / [2! (2 - 2)!])
= (10! / [5! 5!]) (5! / [3! 2!]) (2! / [2! 0!])
= 10! / (5! 3! 2!)
= (10)(9)(8)(7)(6) / [(3)(2)(2)]
= (10)(9)(4)(7)
= 2520.

Notice that there is no requirement that you decide to start by placing the red flowers. For instance, if you begin with the yellow flowers, then the purple, and finally the red, the total number of different-looking arrangements is the same:

C(10, 3) C(10 – 3, 2) C(10 – 3 – 2, 5)
= C(10, 3) C(7, 2) C(5, 5)
= (10! / [3! 7!]) (7! / [2! 5!]) (5! / [5! 0!])
= 10! / (3! 2! 5!)
= 2520.