Question

Read the paragraph. [1] Cory tried out for his school play, Rumors, by Neil Simon. [2] ot the part of “Ken.” [3] Cory attended rehearsal every day after school, and he practiced his lines every night. [4] Cory was fantastic on opening night. [5] Cory made the audience laugh! Why does this paragraph lack sentence variety? Each sentence begins with the subject. Each sentence begins with a dependent clause. Each sentence begins with a prepositional phrase. Each sentence begins with the predicate.

Answer 1

The correct answer is Each sentence begins with the subject.

Explanation:

In this paragraph, all the sentences start with the word "Cory" who is the subject in the sentence as he is the one that performed actions such as try, attend, or made. This writing feature makes the text quite monotonous because all the sentences have the same structure (subject-predicate), and therefore there is no sentence variety. Moreover, this can be corrected if other types of sentences are used; for example, the author can begin a sentence with the object of the action, the verb, or a transition. According to this, the paragraph lacks sentence variety because each sentence begins with the subject.