Texas EOC English 1: 2.1 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
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Can you figure out what the word "Commerce" means in the following passage?
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paradox All right we're reading Jerry crutchley and old doc
johnson Dr j how's it hanging All right Well here
we go What is the meaning of the word commerce
as it is used in this letter and hear the
potential answers All right we'll have to skip back to
the passage for a second to see exactly how the
word commerce is used Well seems clear to us that
our speakers idea of commerce is what goes on between
men and women Giggity in this case young men and
old women Oh double giggity Yeah when they're dating So
even though we usually associate the word commerce with buying
and selling like ebay or ali baba weaken nick's choice
eh If the speaker were advising mixing um you're with
money Well then this would be a very different set
of advices Yeah that we'll also cut choice b sometimes
commerce can also refer to an exchange of ideas which
might make this option a little bit attractive Well there's
nothing in this passage about politics though like so many
ruined politicians the speaker's mind is only unloved C is
one of those random answers the test makers throw in
just to see if we were paying any attention whatsoever
If we bother to read the sentence in which the
word appears we won't find anything about advertising Of course
with the way things are going we'll have product placements
in our standardized tests any day now There's no doubt
that choice d is the best answer The sentence in
which commerce appears specifically advises that in all your amores
you should prefer old women to young ones So we
know we're talking about romantic affairs here Rest homes across 00:01:59.596 --> [endTime] the globe just got a whole new visitor list