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Question of the Day: HiSET: Language Arts - Writing
The rules of English grammar and writing are important to some poets. Proper grammar can help get the meaning of writing across to a wide audience. That is why many people were shocked with the inventive poetry of E.E. Cummings. He took risks and did all he could not to write in a single comprehensible English sentence. He E.E. Cummings lived an interesting and productive life. He is most widely known as “the poet who didn’t capitalize his name,” and his life, like his poetic style, was unique.
Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. He grew up with lenient, liberal parents. They supported his writing at an early age. Unlike many poets, he liked his parents and enjoyed his childhood. He went to public schools in Cambridge before attending Harvard University, like his father. At Harvard, Cummings received a M.A. for English and Classical studies and graduated magna cum laude. He also helped found the Harvard Poetry Society (Unger 431).
How can the following sentences best be combined?
"He grew up with lenient, liberal parents. They supported his writing at an early age."
He grew up with lenient, liberal parents, they supported his writing at an early age
He grew up and his parents supported his writing at an early age, lenient and liberal as they were
His lenient, liberal parents supported his writing at an early age
He grew up with parents who supported his writing at an early age because they were lenient and liberal
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