Olaudah Equiano was scared of the slave ship. He passed out cold because he knew just by looking at his captors that he was never going to get home again. The captors looked different than he and the other enslaved people. He decided that they must be evil because of their appearance. The conditions aboard the ship were the worst imaginable. The smells were awful. Olaudah Equiano wouldn't eat. He was beaten by the men who enslaved him. This student example uses less engaging sentence structure. What could be improved? Check all that apply.

It could vary the words and phrases used to start sentences.

It could begin sentences with different parts of speech.

It could begin some sentences with prepositional phrases.

What about this summary makes it objective? Check the three best answers.

The writer used first-person words like “I” and “me.”

The language doesn’t include the writer’s reactions or judgments.

The language includes only the emotions that Olaudah Equiano described.

The writer avoided using loaded language.

The writer includes personal opinions.

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.