Into this broad category fall companies that run money lending and insurance businesses.

The air was blocked off, extinguishing the fire.

Your essay has some mistakes, but as a whole it is very good.

When he was young, he was so poor that he virtually had to live on gruel.

It is already eleven.

Someday I'll run like the wind.

He was weak as a rat, and had no appetite.

We look forward to getting input from the monitor.

a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history

The soldiers have erected a peace monument.