Sorry for the late response.
The answer is most likely the second one. Hope this helps! :D
~PutarPotato
<u>Answer:</u>
The best way to edit the following sentence "Matthew rode every ride at the amusement park and ate three funnel cakes" is to C: Ensure all spelling and grammatical errors are eliminated
<u>Explanation:</u>
A sentence that is grammatically correct is understood correctly with its proper meaning. If any sentence has spelling mistakes, correct message may not be conveyed to the reader. Our writing is more appealing only with correct use of commas, punctuation marks and correct spellings.
Similarly, correct use of tenses plays an essential role. If we want to mention something that happened in the past and if we use future tense of the word in that sentence, then wrong message will reach the reader.
The answer is:
The animals <em><u>scrambled </u></em>to get into the barn as the lightning <em><u>struck</u></em>.
In the chosen sentence, both verbs in the different clauses are consistent ad accurate because they are written in the Past Simple tense.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the tense of the verbs is not related to each other: they wrongly combine past and present, and present and future tenses.
The right version of them are the following:
<em>Alexander </em><em>finished </em><em>his math test and </em><em>walked </em><em>to Mr. Smith's desk.
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Sampson and Raina </em><em>watch </em><em>the fireworks and </em><em>comment </em><em>on how beautiful they are.
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The police officer </em><em>rounded </em><em>the corner and pumped his arms harder.</em>
I believe that the choice we have is between "inform", "persuade", "entertain", etc: and I would say that here the purpose is to persuade. It's not an objective sentence only giving information, rather it tries to persuade people to choose this product over another one.
