Answer:
Stephanie did not want to cook dinner because she was exhausted from work, so she decided to order food from a restaurant. informal
“I’m beat—too tired to even move. Forget making food,” grumbled Stephanie as she groped for the phone and ordered take-out. very informal
As her method of earning a living had left her fatigued, Stephanie could not find the energy to cook a meal and thus decided to ask a restaurant to deliver her nourishment. formal
Explanation:
Formal diction is characterized by complicated sentence structure, and that is what we see in the last sentence. There is also a gerund and a past perfect tense form used by the writer. There are no contractions. The phrases <em>method of earning a living</em> and <em>find the energy</em> can hardly be found in an informal piece of writing.
Informal diction can be desribed as “everyday speech.” The sentence structure is not complicated. The first sentence is an example of informal diction because it uses only simple tenses; there are no complex grammatical constructions in it.
The second sentence sounds very informal because it uses contractions (I’m), slang (beat) and direct, or quoted, speech. The verbs like <em>grumbled</em> and <em>groped</em> can hardly be found in a formal piece of writng.
