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Em dashes are meant to indicate brief pauses within a running sentence. If you were to include one within a quote, it would go wherever a person pauses for an extended period of time (at least longer than the person would normally take to start their next word).
In your first answer choice, the reader is put under the impression that the em dashes used between "I", "uh", and "am" are pauses, as if Carla was at a brief loss for words. Since she likely paused and said "uh" while thinking of the next thing to say, this is the correct use of the em dash.
In your second answer choice, an em dash wouldn't be appropriate. It's not likely that Bianca would stop her sentence midway, pause, then tell Nawal to duck before the frisbee would hit his head. She likely stopped her sentence and immediately told him to duck instead.
In your third answer, this sentence doesn't even require a dash anywhere. There isn't a need for a pause between "shrieked" and "Laura".
In your fourth answer, this is also an incorrect use of an em dash. There wouldn't be a dash before "exclaimed" in this sentence.
Your answer will be your first option.
Hope this helped you out! :-)
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Answer:
True
Explanation:
The question is basically asking: "True or false: Pre-Columbian art and culture was produced in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus".
This statement is true. As can be seen from the name of this art movement / art type, it's called "Pre-Columbian". "Pre" means before, so essentially, the name says that the art and culture is "before Columbus", making the statement correct.
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The main thing that this question is asking is which sentence does not have a formal tone. A formal tone for research writing usually means using more professional (instead of casual, everyday) language and free of your own opinions.
This means choice D is inappropriate because it is opinionated. Using "I think" is not formal tone.
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Answer: D) I think one of the most frustrating things about owning a cat is that they don't obey many commands.
Answer:
Not everything is how it seems so prove it is something else before showing it to someone because they could take it the wrong way and tell everyone
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