We can actually deduce here that the author's purpose for writing this text is: To share something he has learned about life.
<h3>What is author's purpose?</h3>
Author's purpose refers to the reason behind an author's writing. It reveals what an author wants to achieve from he/she has written.
We see from the passage above that the author's purpose for the writing the passage is to share something he has learned about life. We see that it's story about rejection which many people face in life including myself.
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The paint on the house was blue and unusual.
D. "Neither my friends nor my family cares about me," said Finlay.
In this sentence there are two subjects, "friends" and "family". Since the conjunction "neither...nor" is used, the subject-verb agreement gets a little tricky. If both subjects were singular, as in he or she, the verb must agree with a singular subject. This is because it is either one or the other not both. In this sentence, one subject is plural, friends, and one subject is singular, family. Family is considered a collective noun, so even though there are many people in the family, there is only one family. Since family is closest to the verb and it is singular, "to care" must be in the singular form. Option B and C are wrong because the verbs "were" and "are" are plural verbs.
