Answer:
I don't think the paragraph catches attention.
Explanation:
The paragraph appears to be a persuasive text, and to make your text successful in changing others' mindsets, it needs to be appealing enough for the readers to go through all the way. It does follow TBEAR elements, but it is too dull to change anything. To make it worthy of readers' attention, you have to keep evidence short. Ignore the parts of the evidence that is not necessary.
<em>If I got it wrong, I will return the points to you through another question. Have a good day! :)</em>
Explanation:
Author is giving a lot of details of Washwoman and Washwoman's son and we can say that their characters are two opposites.
- Washwoman is one very old and small woman that is doing her work as it should and she is not ashamed of it like her son. Her son is not inviting her to his wedding because he is ashamed of his mother and that is saying a lot about him.
- He is appearing as one selfish child without feelings. His mother is not bitter because of him, she is a good and hard working woman. Also, the author is showing their financial situation, Washwoman's son is wealthy and she is just a hard working woman who is showing a lot of effort.
After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in May
1940, the Dutch people were immediately faced
with the question of choice: how to respond to
the Nazi occupation. Tens of thousands of Dutch
people followed Hitler, and millions more looked
the other way. Eventually, a resistance movement
began to grow.
The Nazis needed Dutch collaborators to carry
out their fascist decrees. What would ha
Answer:
Answer is in the explanation.
Explanation:
In grammatically correct sentences, subject and verb must agree in person (first, second, third) and in number (singular, plural). The given passage has three disagreements:
1) ...<em>the fate of the diamond were unknown</em>...
Since <em>the fate</em> is third-person singular it needs to be followed by a verb <em>was
</em>
2) <em>neither men or conflict have dimmed...
</em>
It is a general rule that when we have a neither/nor (either/or) construction, the verb agrees with the closest subject ( in this case<em> the conflict</em>) which is in the third person singular, so it needs to be followed by the verb<em> has</em>
3) ... <em>the twin eighty-year-old brothers suggests.</em>..
The subject here is<em> the twin brothers</em> (they) which is third person plural, so the following verb must be <em>suggest</em>
