Which of the following statements would you expect to come from a technical writing document? Which would come from personal writing or imaginative literature? How can you tell? What are your clues?
a. My memory of her will never fade. She brought music into my life.
b. A neutral pH range between 6.5 and 7.5 provides a healthy environment for most community fish in a
freshwater aquarium.
c. The bandwidth of a telecommunications medium is measured in Mbps, which stands for millions of bits
per second or megabits per second.
d. The mist peeked over the marshland.
e. Once upon a time there was a princess who ruled a vast country.
f. To meet International Building Code requirements, stair risers must measure a maximum height of 7
inches and a minimum height of 4 inches.

i believe the answer is inference

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the correct answer is d. gerunds. hope this