Craft and StructureEasy–MediumPurpose of a text about a habit
Craft and Structure practice question
My grandfather wrote down the weather every day for sixty years in a row of small red notebooks. He never explained why. After his death the notebooks went to the county archive, where a researcher found in them the only continuous local record of the great frosts of the 1940s.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
- A. To show how a private habit became a useful historical record.Correct
- B. To explain how to keep a weather diary.
- C. To describe the frosts of the 1940s.
- D. To argue that everyone should keep a diary.
Answer: A. To show how a private habit became a useful historical record.
Sixty years of notebooks, then an archive's use.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. To explain how to keep a weather diary.
- No instructions.
- C. To describe the frosts of the 1940s.
- The frosts are the record's subject, not the text's.
- D. To argue that everyone should keep a diary.
- No argument.
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