The best revision of the modifier "badly" in the sentence 5 is "bad" : She felt <em>bad</em> that someone had lost such a nice watch. The word badly is an <em>adverb</em>, the word that modifies other words and verbs: <em>badly made furniture ; she was treated very badly. </em>In this sentence (modified)<em>, </em>the word<em> bad </em>is an<em> adjective </em>that follows a <em>linking verb</em> "<em>felt."</em>
Answer:
D). To persuade my audience that capital punishment fails to deter people from committing murder.
Explanation:
A purpose statement is described as a statement that primarily functions to define the topic and purpose of the speech or essay in a precise and compact manner. It reveals the key focus, direction, and objectives of the work that are going to be accomplished at the end.
As per the question, option D i.e. 'To persuade my audience that capital punishment fails to deter people from committing murder' reveals the purpose statement designed for a persuasive speech on a question of fact. <u>This would reveal the factual 'cause-and-effect'('capital punishment in preventing murders') direction that the speech would deal with. It would assist in establishing the credibility of the claim and convince the audience logically</u>. Thus, <u>option D</u> is the correct answer.
Answer: to reveal the challenges of social activism
This is the most accurate answer. In this excerpt, the author does not describe a routine action. The event was an anomaly in the lives of African Americans. The author also does not talk about the actions of police forces, as the father gave in without the intervention of the police. Finally, the author does not actually describe the pride the author feels for her father. What the excerpt shows is the challenges of social activism, and the judgement that activists faced when trying to do the right thing.
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Meaning of laconic
It's the style of talking, people who answer in the few brief words. So, in this passage it shows that wife doesn't talk generally, but briefly, since it also says "occasionally correcting him on his lefts and rights", so she didn't really give the directions she just corrected his husband.
Explanation:
In this passage, the setting details that cause the narrator to feel uneasy are: (1) the dark furniture and (4) the curtains that sway because of an approaching storm.
Reference to the dark furniture is made in the lines <em>"...the gloomy furniture of the room"</em> and reference to the curtains that sway is made in the lines <em>"the dark and tattered draperies, which, tortured into motion by the breath of a rising tempest, swayed fitfully to and fro upon the walls, and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed".</em>
