He considers it a leap of faith because he was very scared to do it and when he decided to put his fear aside and jump he ended up making the diving team.
Answer:
1The art of letter writing seems to have declined sharply in recent years.
Shape and pattern type : the information has been organised in terms of cause-effect, however, the topic sentence has the effect and the other sentences unfold the possible causes. This is a top down approach.
Explanation:
The topic sentence holds the most important idea: the fact the art of writing has turned rapidly into an activity from the past has been well noticed in recent years: <em>effect.</em> Then, these are the possible <em>causes</em>: the high cost of stationary and postage; people's lack of time for writing; change of means of communicating with friends; and the instant access to friends and family members through other means of communication.
That is an Americanism.
The correct standardized British form of the verb get is Get-Got-Got, however, in the US, gotten is the more used form of the past participle making it Get-Got-Gotten.