Postmodernist writers discover their ideas while writing
Answer: B) Yes, the author maintains a formal and authoritative tone.
Explanation: the tone of a sentence or a text is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones: positive, negative, objective, happy, sad, angry, etc. In the given excerpt we can see that the author maintains a consistent tone, it is always formal and authoritative, so the correct answer is option B.
What does that even mean???
traffic jams slow you down and people just want to get where they need to go so the speed makes it unbearable.
I think its the first one the sentence looks fine with out a comma.