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Saturday morning, the shopping center buzzed with activity as people went in and out of stores.
Which change would make the language in the sentence more precise?
(1 point)
Responses
replacing went with dashed
replacing went with dashed
replacing shopping center with building
replacing shopping center with building
replacing Saturday morning with earlier
replacing Saturday morning with earlier
replacing buzzed with moved
To make the language in the sentence more precise, the change that would be most effective is:
replacing "buzzed" with "moved"
This change would not be appropriate because "buzzed" conveys a specific atmosphere of a bustling, busy location with a lot of people doing various activities. Simply changing it to "moved" provides less information about the nature of the activity and diminishes the vivacity the original word imparts.
The other two options, replacing "Saturday morning" with "earlier" and replacing "shopping center" with "building", would make the sentence less precise rather than more precise. "Earlier" is less precise than "Saturday morning," and "building" is a more general term than "shopping center," which specifies the type of building.
Therefore, the change that would be most effective in making the language more precise would be:
replacing "went" with "dashed"
Changing "went" to "dashed" would provide a more vivid description of how people were entering and exiting the stores, suggesting they were moving quickly or in a hurry, which adds a specific detail about the nature of their movement. However, without further context to suggest that people were indeed moving rapidly, "dashed" may not be appropriate if the original intent was to simply show that the area was busy. To maintain the original intent while enhancing precision, one might consider a word like "streamed" or "filed," depending on the context. It's worth noting that there is a repetition in the options given; "replacing went with dashed" is mentioned twice, which may indicate a typographical error in the provided choices.