Answer:
<em>In an interview last month on the Yoga Up! Website, Don Roth, a yogi with 30 years' experience wrote how regular yoga "helps your tendons, muscles and ligaments achieve full movement, whilst also improving your core strength." He also added that performing yoga regularly, no matter what sport you play, can improve your performance and reduce the chance of injuries.
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Explanation:
Commas, in general, are used to provide a pause, a shortstop, or to separate between items in a list. They are also used to separate clauses or to specify a proper noun etc. The given passage has 4 errors in the usage of the comma. The improved or correct passage will be-
<em>In an interview last month on the Yoga Up! Website, Don Roth, a yogi with 30 years' experience wrote how regular yoga "helps your tendons, muscles and ligaments achieve full movement, whilst also improving your core strength." He also added that performing yoga regularly, no matter what sport you play, can improve your performance and reduce the chance of injuries.
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The corrections are as follows-
Remove comma after "month",
add comma after "Roth",
remove comma after "yoga",
add comma after "play".
This statement needs facts and statistics in order to be strengthened.
This statement provides certain information. However, that information lacks veracity, that is, it does not seem reliable or accurate as it lacks facts or statistics to prove and support what is stated.
Statistics are numbers or facts that are implemented to provide convincing information. Thus, the reader wont be able to argue with facts and will feel that statistics will prove what the writer is saying. They are employed to convince a reader and to provide factual weight to an argument.
Answer: A) It reinforces the idea of the United Nations’ strength and power.
Repetition is often used as a rhetorical device in order to emphasize an idea. It can also be used to provide more weight to a particular topic or to leave a long-lasting image in the listener's mind. In this case, the idea that Roosevelt is trying to emphasize is that the United Nations will strike again, because of its strength and power. By repeating the word "strike," he is making sure that the listener understands the extent of this promise and the power of the UN.
Answer: Sentence 6
Explanation: Every year, Thanksgiving was a big deal, a holiday of epic proportions, for the Grabowski family. (2) Grandma invited the whole family to her house in Andersonville each year. (3) Cousin Tom made his homemade bread and stuffing, along with mashed potatoes. (4) His sister Marybeth prepared chicken soup that everyone enjoyed along with trays of vegetables and dips. (5) Some years, more than twenty people showed up, and everyone carried an appetite, so there had to be an abundance of food on the table. (6) The table looked like a fancy buffet at a restaurant, covered with fragrant apple pies, steaming and juicy turkey, and sizzling hot sweet potatoes. (7) People ate and talked and had a lot of fun all through the afternoon, and most of them were asleep on the couches by eight o'clock. 127 words, 9.2 Flesch, 1090 Lexile
