Question

In the table, list at least two purposes you identified in “Taming the Bicycle” and present supporting evidence from the text for each purpose. List the main purpose first.

Answer 1

Answer:

1)Purpose: to entertain

Evidence :  It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive  on you, and there you are.

2)Purpose: to inform

Evidence: Mine was not a full-grown bicycle, but only a colt—a fifty-inch, with the pedals  shortened up to forty-eight—and skittish, like any other colt.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer:

Purpose Evidence

to entertain It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way,  

for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive  

on you, and there you are.

to inform Mine was not a full-grown bicycle, but only a colt—a fifty-inch, with the pedals  

shortened up to forty-eight—and skittish, like any other colt.

Explanation:

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