The gist of a paper is a precise summary
The gist of a paper is when you explain/describe what your whole paper will be about for which you have to give a brief summary of everything you will talk about while a thesis is your opinion on something and just that
Answer: B. Salt and rust are corrosives that have damaging effects on a city’s infrastructure.
Explanation: in a text, a main idea is important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text. In the given excerpt from "The City Without Us” by Alan Weisman we can see the description of how the salt used on the roadways on winter, is very corrosive because it eats steel, and it also says that with no people, there won't be salt, but there will be rust which is also corrosive. According to this information, the main idea of the paragraph is best represented by option B: Salt and rust are corrosives that have damaging effects on a city’s infrastructure.
Answer:
Formal.
Explanation:
It is formal because it uses words like "geothermal features" and "resources".
It does not sound like the way you would normally rendezvous or talk with friends. It does not contain any slangs or made up words.
in the text bacconola means boat
