The authors attitude or tone...
The answer is:
My mother is very tall but my father is even taller.
Conjunctions join clauses, words and phrases and they are usually used to avoid a sequence of short sentences. For example, <em>and, but, </em>and <em>or</em>.
In this case, the most suitable sentences to combine with a conjunction like "but" are the ones whose subjects are related (mother and father) and whose predicates have a similar structure: both describe height and one has a comparative form of the adjective tall, so they can be easily joined.
Answer:
To introduce one source of the settlers' fears
Explanation:
The information about the earlier colony of Sir Walter Raleigh was meant to introduce a factor that must have created doubts and fears in the minds of the new colonists. The settlers sent by Sir Walter Raleigh had disappeared mysteriously.
So, the settlers must have wondered what could have happened to them, and if the circumstances behind their disappearance might have affected them as well. So that was one source of the settlers' fears.
This interval is a Second.
