Read the excerpt from cory’s letter to his principal about selling healthy food in the school cafeteria.

fruit is a nutritious and energizing snack, and it’s also yummy.

which is the best revision of the underlined portion of the sentence?

and it’s also delicious.

and we also think it tastes pretty good.

and we totally like it.

and most of us are pretty into it.

Your question does not provide the underlined portion of the sentence. The complete sentence is the following:

Fruit is a nutritious and energizing snack, and it’s also yummy.

and it’s also delicious.

Explanation:

Yummy is an informal adjective to indicate that food is delicious. As a consequence, the best revision of the sentence is the one which contains a more suitable adjective for a formal letter to the school principal.

The rest of the alternatives are incorrect because they are all informal expressions which are inappropriate for a formal writing style.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

"why don't you like me the way i am? " i cried. "i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano, and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! "

explanation:

the conflict between jing-mei and her mother is over jing-mei's piano lessons since her mother wants her to become a prodigy but she does not want to play it any more.