1. "i am not much at heights, but the mules were enormously tall, enormously heavy, very beautiful beasts, white, red, yellow, and black, and sleek with unlimited polishing and grooming" based on this passage, what is the author's purpose for writing this text? a. to entertain the reader with tales of horses b. to persuade the reader to take up horseback riding c. to illustrate the unique beauty found in china d. to inform the reader about the poor road conditions in china

C) to illustrate the unique beauty found in China.

Explanation: When writing, an author can have several different purposes, for example: to persuade, inform, to entertain, to explain, etc. From the given options, the one that represents the author's purpose for writing the text, is the corresponding to option C: to illustrate the unique beauty found in China, because, as we can see, the narrator describes the mules as "enormously tall, enormously heavy, very beautiful beasts, white, red, yellow, and black, and sleek with unlimited polishing and grooming."

type of error:

the error in the sentence is a "dangling modifier". a dangling modifier is a phrase, word or clause that "dangles" because there is not target to modify. in this case, "after mopping the floor" is the dangling modifier since it has no word to modify. the noun "house" cannot mop the floor; therefore there is a mistake in the writing of the sentence.