Tom and Daisy attend a party at Gatsby's place the next Saturday night. Tom has no desire to attend the party, but his loathing for Gatsby makes him want to keep an eye on Daisy.
Answer:
In order to express oneself in a formal way, correct grammar must be used, since it makes for a serious tone, that is, it shows whatever was written was done so carefully and seriously, as a sign of respect for the addressee. In formal writing, even abbreviations must be avoided, as well as contractions. Therefore, correct grammar is the way to go if you want to achieve a formal tone.
When I was teaching through UCSC Extension, one of the students asked if I would meet her outside of class for intensive, one-on-one instruction in editing. I agreed. Turns out, she'd been recently hired as an editor by a major player in the industry, and she now found herself in over her head because, actually, she couldn't edit. Her background? She'd been a massage therapist who'd taken to computers when the desktop models first came out, and so she'd begun a small desktop publishing business. As she worked with the various pieces clients gave her, she began to make little corrections here and there. Soon, she was calling herself an editor. (After all, she was making changes in someone else's text, wasn't she?)
Answer:
D, "One could consult an online dictionarey to check the spelling"
Explanation:
That's not how you spell dictionary!
