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Zorluk: OrtaMeeting Specific Rhetorical Goals

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In the early 1900s, the construction of the Panama Canal required excavating millions of tons of earth through the Culebra Cut. Landslides were a constant hazard, repeatedly burying equipment and undoing months of progress. [1]

The writer wants to add a sentence at point [1] that emphasizes the immense scale of the excavation effort and the primary technology used to accomplish it. Which choice best fulfills this goal?

  1. To move the mountain of rock, crews operated over one hundred steam shovels, which filled up to 160 traincars daily with dug-up earth.Cevap
  2. B
    Many workers from the Caribbean and Europe traveled to Panama to join the workforce, seeking economic opportunities despite the harsh environment.
  3. C
    Due to these geologic hazards, the overall construction of the canal took nearly a decade longer than originally anticipated by American planners.
  4. D
    Crews worked day and night to clear the path, they relied on steam-powered machinery to scoop up the heavy rock.

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To move the mountain of rock, crews operated over one hundred steam shovels, which filled up to 160 traincars daily with dug-up earth.
The correct answer successfully fulfills the rhetorical goal by specifying the technology used (steam shovels) and presenting numbers that illustrate the massive scale of the work (over one hundred steam shovels and 160 traincars daily). It is also grammatically correct.

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1
Analyze the prompt to identify the specific rhetorical goals.
The target sentence must emphasize the immense scale of the excavation effort and identify the primary technology used.
Understanding the precise criteria of the rhetorical goal is necessary to filter out options that address unrelated themes.
2
Evaluate the choices to check if they meet both parts of the rhetorical goal.
The correct choice mentions the primary technology (steam shovels) and details that show scale (over one hundred shovels, 160 traincars daily). The options focusing on worker origins or construction delays fail to meet these criteria.
This step eliminates distractors that are topically related but fail to address the specific prompt requirements.
3
Check the remaining option for grammatical correctness.
The correct choice is grammatically sound, whereas the option mentioning crews working day and night contains a comma splice.
Ensuring the selected choice is free of grammatical errors completes the ACT English question requirements.

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