Texas EOC English 1: 2.1 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres

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

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