Exercise: Revising inconsistent formality

EXERCISE 30.2

Revise each of these sentences to use formal language consistently.

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  1. Question

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    In Shakespeare’s Othello, Desdemona just lies down like some kind of wimp and accepts her death as inevitable.
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    The budget office doesn’t want to cough up the cash to replace the drafty windows, but cranking up the heat in the building all winter doesn’t come cheap.
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    Finding all that bling in King Tut’s tomb was one of the biggest archeological scores of the twentieth century.
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    In unfamiliar settings or with people he did not know well, Duncan often came off as kind of snooty, but in reality he was scared to death.
  5. Question

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    My family lived in Trinidad for the first ten years of my life, and we went through a lot of bad stuff there, but when we came to the United States, we thought we finally had it made.