Answer:
The statements that indicate an informal tone that is inappropriate for an academic paper are:
When you think about it, this poem is really crazy.
I can't believe that people think that this writer's talented.
This book should be avoided like the plague it's so bad.
Explanation:
Academic papers demand a more formal tone that confers more objectivity to them. They avoid using the first person, expressing subjective opinions, and using an overall informal, colloquial language. The purpose is to present information via an impersonal tone. Among the sentences we were provided for analysis, there are three that present a personal opinion of the speaker in quite a colloquial manner, using everyday language to convey a subjective perspective:
When you think about it, this poem is really crazy.
I can't believe that people think that this writer's talented.
This book should be avoided like the plague it's so bad.
Answer:
17 - "These are some of things we helped him with."
Explanation:
14 - is wrong because it should be: My dad said,"If I <u>was</u> smarter, then I would've called first."
15 - is wrong because it should be: "For our next vacation, he enlisted us to help out and be better prepared."
16 - is wrong because it should be: "We worked hard to find out all the information we could."
I phoned him because he was not home.
The second part of the sentence is now dependent on the first as it cannot stand alone as its own sentence.
Walden is Thoreau's account of two years he spent living in a small cabin he built next to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts.
This statement best describe and summarize the third paragraph of economy in walden
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