Craft and StructureVery hardFunction of a closing sentence about motive
Craft and Structure practice question
The village's annual bread festival began, the brochures say, in the fourteenth century. The earliest record of it is a newspaper advertisement from 1923. Perhaps the medieval origin is real and the records were lost; perhaps a 1920s committee invented a tradition to bring in visitors. The brochures, either way, are selling the version that sells.
Which choice best describes the function of the final sentence?
- A. It suggests that the festival's promoters have a reason to prefer the older origin story, whichever story is true.Correct
- B. It confirms that the festival began in the fourteenth century.
- C. It proves that the festival was invented in 1923.
- D. It criticises the newspaper for its advertisement.
Answer: A. It suggests that the festival's promoters have a reason to prefer the older origin story, whichever story is true.
'Either way' sets the truth aside; 'the version that sells' names the brochures' motive.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It confirms that the festival began in the fourteenth century.
- The sentence leaves the origin open.
- C. It proves that the festival was invented in 1923.
- The sentence doesn't settle the origin either way.
- D. It criticises the newspaper for its advertisement.
- The newspaper is only the source of the earliest record.
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