C. They freely share their opinions on issues.
Reporters gather information and are supposed to present it in an unbiased manner. A columnist writes a persuasive or opinion piece.
The answer is D It creates a formal and sincere tone. It is that answer because he is expressing how he is sorry while still being formal.
The physical and soical background against which a story takes place is it setting.
Answer:
it is C.) participle phrase
Number 4: She has six Aunts, five Uncles, and fifteen cousins, has a capitalization error.
Aunts and Uncles should be lower cased because they are common nouns. They describe the people who are the aunts and uncles. However, if you had a name that followed aunt (like in number 5), then Aunt and the name of the person would be capitalized because it is a title of a person and it becomes a proper noun.
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