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Coimbra1970 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Identifying sentence variety

For both items, circle the letter of the passage that is best written:

1A: The Black Plague was spread by infected rats. It was a highly contagious disease. It spread rapidly in the dirty, crowded medieval cities.
B: The Black Plague was spread by infected rats. A highly contagious disease it was spread rapidly in the dirty, crowded medieval cities.

For the above 2, I chose B as the correct answer??

2A: A flu epidemic struck soon after World War I. The epidemic was a truly devastating once in America. Far more people died than in any subsequent flu outbreak.

B: A flu epidemic struck soon after World War I. How truly devastating it was in America! Far more people died than in any subsequent flu outbreak.

I chose B??
  

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Coimbra1970 circle the letter of the passage that is best written: Best means that there are three or more choices. You have given only two. What are the other possible choices?

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  • Coimbra1970 circle the letter of the passage that is best written: Best means that there are three or more choices.
  • You have given only two.
  • What are the other possible choices?
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Coimbra1970circle the letter of the passage that is best written:
Best means that there are three or more choices. You have given only two. What are the other possible choices?
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There are no more choices, and that is exactly how the question is worded.
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Coimbra1970For the above 2, I chose B as the correct answer??
A. is badly written, but it does not have the problems that B does.
Coimbra1970I chose B??
That is better than A.
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B: The Black Plague was spread by infected rats. A highly contagious disease, it was spread rapidly in the dirty, crowded medieval cities.

I forgot to add a comma after disease. Can it still be A then?? I am confused as to why it would be B rather than A. Can you please possibly explain? Thanks
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Coimbra1970Can you please possibly explain? Thanks
It spread rapidly - that is better than the passive (it was spread rapidly) since there is no explicit agent.

The best version, of course, is the one not mentioned:

The Black Plague, a highly contagious disease, was rapidly spread by infected rats in the dirty, crowded medieval cities.
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Thank you. It makes a little more sense to me now.
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Coimbra19701A: The Black Plague
Your wording is muddled. It's The Black Death or The Plague.
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AnonymousYour wording is muddled. It's The Black Death or The Plague.
That is a comparatively minor issue in this book, assuming that Coimbra has correctly written exactly what's in the book.
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