Answer:
✔️ Global warming is a fact, and we need to act before it is too late. ➡️ instruct
✔️ Once upon a time, there was a dragon who lived in a castle. ➡️ entertain
✔️ The US Census Bureau reported that Texas had an estimated population of 25, 674,681 people in 2011. ➡️ inform
✔️ There are several reasons why football is one of the most widely watched sports each year. ➡️ evaluate
✔️ This paper explores how butterflies are different from moths ➡️ document or record
✔️ Baking a cake from scratch is fun, and, if you follow the steps below, ➡️ instruct
✔️ Suzanne Collins does an outstanding job portraying the dystopian setting in her award winning novel, The Hunger Games. ➡️ document or record.
Explanation:
The purpose of the above topic sentences have been successfully matched.
The first is persuading audience with the fact of global warming and why we must act fast.
The second is for the purpose of entertaining the audience. The third topic sentence is giving an information about the population of Texas in 2011. The fourth topic sentence is evaluating the reasons football is the most widely watched sports.
The fifth topic sentence is a paper which serves as a document.
The sixth topic sentence gives instructions on baking cake from scratch while the seventh topic sentence is a document that portrays the dystopian setting.
Explanation:
Objective, it can’t be proven.
Upon his return home, Gulliver was sickened by the sight, touch, and smell of his family.
Because of his feelings towards his family, Gulliver distanced himself from them. He instead spent his time with the horses, trying to recreate the feeling he had when he was still in Houyhnhnmland.
Answer:
C- capital punishment costs the state more money than keeping a person in prison for life.
Explanation:
C) is a fact because it can be proven by numbers. The others are opinions because they could be true, but untimately can't be proven. They could be argued, or people could be conviniced they are true, but they aren't facts.
Answer: A. A massage is given as a relaxing experience, not stressful.
Explanation:
Passive voice is used when we want to place focus on the person/object that experiences the action, and not the person/object that performs the action. The object from the active sentence thus becomes the subject in the passive sentence.
Passive constructions are formed in a following way:
<em>verb to be </em>+ <em>past participle of the main verb (III column)</em>
The only sentence that contains passive construction is sentence A. Passive construction<em> ''is given''</em> consists of verb 'to be' (present simple) and past participle of 'to give'.
