Spring Mountains

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a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3,635 meters).

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Are you aware how often people swap around “their,” “there,” and “they’re”? Prove you have more than a fair grasp over these commonly confused words.

Question 1 of 7

Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
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This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
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It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
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Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.
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Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.
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Under so many savage blows, the labouring mountains brought forth Turks.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
Children's Ways|James Sully
On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson