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The following is a draft of a student's submission to a poetry competition. It contains errors.

I though about them again today.
The ones who grew up in a different town.
The ones who went to a different school.
The ones who took different risks.
The ones who made different enemies.
They’re always happier than I am.
Those perfect,
continuous,
conditional,
mes.
Q1: Which of the following corrections should be made to the first line of the poem?
Replace the period at the end of the line with a semicolon
Replace the word “though” with the word “thought” Replace the word “again” with the word “against” Leave it as-is
Q2: Which of the following corrections should be made to word “mes” in the final line of the poem? Italicize it because it is a Spanish word
Replace it with the word “men”
Replace it with the word “mess” Leave it as-is
Q3: Which of the following words best describes the subject of this poem?
regret
nostalgia dissatisfaction tension
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