The answer is D)
<span>using transitional words to help readers see the relationship between ideas
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The correct answer is "Few in the band have learned all of their music yet". When a verb agrees with its pronoun subject, it needs to sound natural. "Neither" and "either" always agree with a verb in singular form, and "anybody" agrees with a verb in the singular form as well.
Typically newspapers want their articles to be shorter because they want to appeal to their audience, who wants only the facts and information quickly.
This would be logos, it follows facts and logical reasoning.