Identify the words or phrases in the following sentence that would be inappropriately emotional in academic writing (or any text that calls for neutral language), and the best revisions for those words or phrases. “The chick that played Juliet in this production of Shakespeare’s deeply romantic play seemed cocky about her performance during the curtain call.”

a. Replace chick with female and cocky with bigheaded.
b. Replace deeply romantic with very lovey-dovey.
c. Replace chick with woman and cocky with confident.
d. Replace deeply romantic with extremely amorous.


c. Replace chick with woman and cocky with confident.

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identify the subordinating conjunction.

When Maddie receives a text, her phone chimes loudly. a) When b) chimes loudly c) her d) phone

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¿Qué hacer? Contesta las siguientes preguntas cambiando los objetos directos o indirectos a pronombres.        Modelo: ¿Compramos unos filetes de pescado?                 Sí, comprémoslos/No, no los compremos.¿Envío el telegrama?

What will be an ideal response?

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What will be an ideal response?

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