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kozerog [31]
3 years ago
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(1) Basketball is a team sport, the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points whi

le following a set of rules. (2) Usually, two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each end. (3) Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports. (4) People enjoy playing basketball because it is so cool. (5) There are millions of people across more than two hundred countries that play basketball around the world.
Which sentence conveys a tone that is inconsistent with the rest of the passage?
A) Sentence 1
B) Sentence 2
C) Sentence 3
D) Sentence 4
English
2 answers:
Serggg [28]3 years ago
8 0

(4) People enjoy playing basketball because it is so cool.

The excerpt explains what basketball is, how its rules work, its popularity, and how widespread the sport is around the world. That is, this section is explanatory.

However, item (4) demonstrates the narrator's opinion about the sport, which may be accepted by some, but not for the majority. This opinionated argument broke the cohesion of the text, which is informative.

LuckyWell [14K]3 years ago
3 0
4, Because it doesn't fit in
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