Craft and StructureVery hardFunction of the last sentence about a long report
Craft and Structure practice question
The committee's report runs to four hundred pages, of which twelve are recommendations. The rest is evidence: transcripts, tables, letters. Critics call it padding. The chair's reply is that a report with twelve pages of recommendations and no evidence would have been ignored, and that the padding is the point.
Which choice best describes the function of the final sentence in the text as a whole?
- A. It presents the chair's defence that the bulk of evidence is what gives the recommendations their force.Correct
- B. It agrees with the critics that the report is too long.
- C. It summarises the twelve recommendations.
- D. It describes how the evidence was gathered.
Answer: A. It presents the chair's defence that the bulk of evidence is what gives the recommendations their force.
The padding is the point.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It agrees with the critics that the report is too long.
- It answers the critics.
- C. It summarises the twelve recommendations.
- No recommendations are given.
- D. It describes how the evidence was gathered.
- No gathering is described.
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