Question 1: as an example of undistinguished speech, read aloud the following explanation given by an executive who arrived late for a meeting. each of the italicized words and expressions in this paragraph can be replaced by a more expressive and more suitable word. try your skill in improving the executive’s explanation by replacing all the italicized words and expressions with words of your own selection. i’m sorry i got here so late, but i couldn’t get here any earlier. i got a faxed message from washington just as i was getting ready to leave, and i had to get off a reply at once. i tried to get a call through, but i got tired of waiting and finally got a fax on its way. before i could get out of the office, i got a call from my sister. she had just gotten word that our father had gotten hurt in an automobile accident. when i finally got down to the garage, i found i had forgotten to get gas, so i had to get a taxi. it’s a wonder i got here at all.

Which line from president reagan’s address sat moscow state university is a fact? a. democracy is the standard by which governments are measured. b. throughout the world, free markets are the model for growth. c. the key is freedom-freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication. d. every four years the american people choose a new president, and 1988 is one of those years.

Which type of formatting technique would you use to group information to make it easier for th audiance to understand

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”