An informative speech aims to inform the audience about a specific topic. A persuasive speech aims to persuade the audience to perform a certain action or convince the audience to adopt the belief or opinion of the speaker. Many speeches will combine features of informative and persuasive speeches
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The present tense would be swim.
This is because it suggests your swimming in the present, instead of swum or swam, which suggests that you did these 50 laps in the past.
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<span>Montag realizes that in his day, people are generally not happy. He knows that, in the past, people were happy. He tries to figure out what is different now and the main thing he can think of is that there used to be books and now there aren't any books. Also because in one of the chapters he watches the old lady burn with her books so if people are willing to die with their books than there has to be some sort of value and meaning to them.</span>
