Which represents the most appropriate tone to use if writing a text message to a friend inviting him to a party?
a) what's up? there's a party later if you want to come.
b) hi. accompany me to the party that takes place later on.
c) hello. would you be so kind as to accompany me to a soiree next week?
d) i plan to attend a gathering later this evening and would be honored if you would join.

Poling our way along the inky green waterway, we glided upstream through quiet still-water bends in the river, where mats of fragrant white flowers had gathered, closing behind the stern of our 24-inch-wide dugout and concealing any sign of our passage. —eric hansen, stranger in the forest: on foot across borneo, 1998 which of these items in the passage is an example of borneo’s flora? a. “the inky green waterway” c. “mats of fragrant white flowers” b. “still-water bends in the river” d. “the stern of our 24-inch-wide dugout”