Periodically throughout recorded history, puzzling instances of psychiatric and neurologic symptoms have presented en mass<span>: outbursts of thrashing and screaming, or je rky spasms and abrupt vocal tics affecting a group of individuals at once and often attributed to causes like possession, witchcraft, and malingering. Such occurrences of so-called "mass hysteria" continue to confound the medical community, but growing experience has improved the understanding and approach to these seemingly contagious psychogenic events. </span>
Answer:
I would say the effects of high-fat and low-fat diets.
Explanation:
For [A] a report on how to reduce air pollution would be expository or persuasive.
For [B] a mystery story would be entertaining and engaging.
For [C] why Great Britain was the birthplace of the industrial revolution would be a persuasive exposition, factually based.
For [D] you would write and exposition comparison to describe the benefits and detriments of the two types of diets, thus a "compare-and-contrast" essay.
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they are ugly because of the fact that they are ugly
Answer and Explanation:
Cleft sentences are used to connect something previously understood to new information or to emphasize something by placing it in a different clause. When we use this type of structure, we are basically dividing a piece of information into two clauses. It is common to use <em>it</em> or <em>wh-</em> words to form the cleft sentence.
1. I don't like a manager who acts like a tyrant. = What I don't like is a manager who acts like a tyrant.
2. We're looking for someone who is a team player. - What we are looking for is someone who is a team player.
3. He would prefer to walk to the theater. - What he would prefer is to walk to the theater.
4. She wrote the most popular mystery novel of the year. - It was she who wrote the most popular mystery novel of the year. / What she wrote was the most popular mystery novel of the year.
5. We saw the most dangerous snake in the world. - What we saw was the most dangerous snake in the world. / It was the most dangerous snake in the world that we saw.
6. She had a terrible case of the flu. - What she had was a terrible case of the flu.
7. I don't understand why someone took my headphones. - What I don't understand is why someone took my headphones.
Russian folk and revolutionary songs.
You can tell they are songs because the picketers were singing as they marched.