Answer:
tall - towering
happy - cheerful
interesting - fascinating
boring - colorless
Explanation:
<u>It is important, especially when it comes to writing, to have and expanded lexicon so as to avoid repetition or the use of general words. That means we can express the same idea in a more compelling way by simply knowing how to employ more engaging words.</u>
Let's use the words above in sentences. Pay attention to how the sentence sounds different after the change for the more interesting option, even though the words have basically the same meaning:
1. The old tall oak had finally been cut, put to rest without mercy. - The old towering oak had finally been cut, put to rest without mercy.
2. Rosana had always been described as a happy child. - Rosana had always been described as a cheerful child.
3. I have just finished a most interesting book. - I have just finished a most fascinating book.
4. The monotony in his voice made his lecture boring - The monotony in his voice made his lecture colorless.
Answer:
Underline "things" and "is"
Explanation:
Answer:
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I think is B that what i think
Explanation:
1 . The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.
2.What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
3.We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
4.In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.
5.Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.
