Which excerpt from “The Telephone: A Truer Tale” best supports the purpose of the text?
1. After all, it has a terrific happy ending in which the hero, Alexander Graham Bell, uses his astonishing new device to transmit the words “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.”
2. Meucci would not allow himself to become discouraged, however. Instead, he returned to his lab determined to make his talking machine even better. He worked for many more years and did just that.
3. In 1871, Meucci still lacked investors and was unable to pay the $250 patent fee, so he filed a patent caveat instead. A patent caveat cost only $10 and would not allow anyone else to patent the same idea for one full year.
4. June 11, 2002, one hundred and twenty-six years after Bell’s patent was issued, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution recognizing Antonio Meucci as the true inventor of the telephone.

C/ In 1871, Meucci still lacked investors and was unable to pay the $250 patent fee, so he filed a patent caveat instead. A patent caveat cost only $10 and would not allow anyone else to patent the same idea for one full year.

Explanation:

its on edge

active voice: my father cut the tree.

passive voice: the tree was cut by my father.

active voice: people buy newspapers every day.

passive voice: newspapers are bought (by people) every day.

active voice: people have been using movies as political propaganda since world war ii.

passive voice: movies have been used as political propaganda since world war ii.

active voice: donna gave me my birthday present.

passive voice: i was given my birthday present (by donna). / my birthday present was given to me (by donna).

active voice: mom will leave the keys on the counter.

passive voice: the keys will be left (by mom) on the counter.

the words in parentheses are the agent of the passive voice and can be omitted when obvious, generic, or simply unnecessary.

a, overstatement is the answer