Read the passage. have you ever wondered how whales compare to elephants? some whales weigh as much as 20 elephants, and they have blood vessels so wide a trout can swim through them! which of the following is the most likely purpose and audience for this passage? to inform professors to inform highly educated scientists to teach young children to persuade newspaper readers

The most likely purpose and audience for this passage Is:

to teach young children

Explanation:

To identify why this is the answer we need to look at the language and purpose. Because language is the element we can use to target our audience, then purpose. First of all, we can't see any technicality, so professors and scientists are not targeted. Then, we see that there is a clear phenomenon explanation here. But we also observe something that will define the target from the two last options. It is talking in singular directly. Therefore, we can understand is directed to children. Because if it would have been directed to the general public, we would have identified it was a targeter for newspaper readers. Because that is the format used in the newspaper, the consideration of the general wide public.

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.

i think it's either 'to expose the corruption of the communists in russia', or 'to criticize animal brutality by communists in russia.'  

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