Brian's Responses in WyzAnt Answers

A complete sentence need not be complicated.  You need to start with a subject; that is what are you writing about, followed usually by a verb and then a finish.  An example could be " I went yesterday to the store."  A "fragmented," or incomplete sentence might read " Went yesterday to the store."  Remember too, that in creative essay and story telling, fragmented sentences my be all right if you are re-telling a story.

Amy,

     Remember this is coming from the Onion, satirical in everything.  Assume by your question, you need techniques the article uses, rather than critiquing the article itself.  Remember that satire often uses real entities (in this case, American Airlines); and uses a real life situation (current hard times), to make light of the SITUATION.  They are using this made up story to provide a funny look at our economy, as well as demonstrate how far corporate greed will go to line their own pockets.  Everything is a metaphor.  The airline may stand for corporations, the fee may stand for attempts at geed and so on.  To use the techniques the Onion does, is to make creative and funny use of metaphorical writing.  Things in the articles stand for something else, I.e. metaphors.

Write like this and you'll get people laughing because they see what you're trying to say without quite relating the "true facts."

Hope this helps.

Hello was actually borrowed by the English in the middle ages from the french ho la.  It was used as a shout or call and indicated pay attention to me.  The word was changed by the English again and again in the 1500s and 1600s to eventually a call of hulloo or haloo.  Then a gradual English shift to the present hello.  Thus, the French really invented it, but the evolution of the word was actually English.  Hope this helps.

My opinion is that if you asked the question in the fist place, you already show a great deal of intelligence.  Geniuses are usually those who refer to themselves as such.

To answer percentage question, just divide the smaller number (in this case 77) by the larger number (110) and you'll get a decimal answer.  In your case 77 divided by 110 = 70%