What is the purpose of structural features in a functional text?

a. to assist the reader in getting information as quickly and easily as possible
b. to make it so that readers can get away with skimming alone
c. to make reading a more pleasurable experience
d. all of these

The travels of marco polo. what is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

What event shows how eckels' character develops over the course of the story sound of thunder

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. according to one joke, scientists are now using lawyers instead of rats in laboratory experiments. there are three reasons for this change. for one thing, there are more lawyers than rats. for another, the scientists become less emotionally attached to the lawyers. and finally, certain things are so disgusting that rats won’t do them. 1. a lawyer must have made up this joke. 2. some people feel there are too many lawyers. 3. lawyers have the reputation of being willing to do anything. 4. scientists have the reputation of