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The author's attitude toward the subjects in the passage is best described as
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- 00:05
Okay Ap england people another question for you last one
- 00:08
In this section the author's attitude toward the subjects in
- 00:11
the passage is best described as what The best way
- 00:19
to figure out attitude and tone is attending a punctuation
- 00:22
in wording if there are a lot of exclamation points
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while we can bet the author is emotionally involved If
- 00:27
there are a slew of positive or negative adjectives well
- 00:30
we know what the author's opinion is on something right
- 00:32
The author's point of view here is mostly just factual
- 00:35
journalistic even for the fact that there are some rather
- 00:37
dryly humorous statements like addicts are good customers you also
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makes it rather wry So for this the author is
- 00:44
it times admiring a and respectful see but not entirely
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After all blame is squarely placed on ross for america's
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crack addiction There the author tries to be somewhat detached
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so there isn't much that's negative or positive and either
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sarcastic nor deferential So get rid of danny So yeah
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the answer is b Ryan factual
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