"when about 16 years of age, i happen'd to meet with a book written by one tryon, recommending a vegetable diet." (from franklin's the autobiography) which sentence best rephrases this in modern-day syntax? a) when i was 16 years of age i met a book written by one tryon about vegetable diets. b) when i was 16 i read a book, by a man named tryon, which recommended a vegetable diet. c) when i reached 16 years, i did find tryon's book, which did recommend a vegetable diet. d) when i was 16 years old, i happened upon a book, recommending to dine upon a diet of vegetables, by the man tryon.

The answer is b) when i was 16 i read a book, by a man named tyron, which recommended a vegetable diet.

The sentence that BEST rephrases this in modern-day syntax is "When I was 16 I read a book, by a man named Tryon, which recommended a vegetable diet."

Explanation:

Grammar syntax changes and is affected by society and their interaction, taking this sentence to mother syntaxis requires the use of different structure and vocabulary, modern syntaxis is much simpler that communication in other previous periods, option B present a simple and easy to understand version of the same information.

in the problem you wrote said that the taxi charges $0.070 per mile(which would be 7 cents per mile), but then in your suggested equation you have it as $0.70 per mile (which is 70 cents per mile).

the latter seems more realistic, so i will assume that the taxi costs $5.00 and charges $0.70 per mile with tolls costing an additional $3.50. and it asks you to find how far you can travel on $36.50.

let x the number of miles traveled. since the taxi charges $0.70 per mile, multiplying this by the miles traveled (x) will yield the cost of the taxi ride as far as how far it took you. then adding this amount to the cost of the taxi ($5.00) and the additional cost for the tolls ($3.50) will give you the total cost of the taxi ride ($36.50)

that is,

            (0.70)x + 5.00 + 3.50 = 36.50

adding the like terms on the left-hand side of this equation, we arrive at the following:

            (0.70)x + 8.50 = 36.50

subtracting 8.50 from both sides of the equation, we get:

            (0.70)x = 28.00

to solve for x, divide both sides of the equation above by the coefficient of x (that being, 0.70):

            x = 40

thus, you can travel up to 40 miles on $36.50

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)