Avoiding Clichés and Sexist Language

Avoiding Clichés and Sexist Language

Each of the following sentences uses a cliché or sexist language. Identify the cliché or sexist language.

For help with this exercise, see sections 22d and 22f.

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1. We want our milk and cream fresh as a daisy, so they have been pasteurized and homogenized.

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Avoiding Clichés and Sexist Language: Each of the following sentences uses a cliché or sexist language. Identify the cliché or sexist language. - 1. We want our milk and cream fresh as a daisy, so they have been pasteurized and homogenized.

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2. Of course, these are the products the little lady wants for her growing family.

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Avoiding Clichés and Sexist Language: Each of the following sentences uses a cliché or sexist language. Identify the cliché or sexist language. - 2. Of course, these are the products the little lady wants for her growing family.

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3. To add insult to injury, Americans drinking European milk even declare it doesn’t taste like “real milk.”

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Avoiding Clichés and Sexist Language: Each of the following sentences uses a cliché or sexist language. Identify the cliché or sexist language. - 3. To add insult to injury, Americans drinking European milk even declare it doesn’t taste like “real milk.”

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4. The butter seems hard as a rock and tasteless.

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Avoiding Clichés and Sexist Language: Each of the following sentences uses a cliché or sexist language. Identify the cliché or sexist language. - 4. The butter seems hard as a rock and tasteless.

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5. Since these nonpreserved products don’t have a long shelf life, our hard-pressed housewife would have to go shopping often.

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Avoiding Clichés and Sexist Language: Each of the following sentences uses a cliché or sexist language. Identify the cliché or sexist language. - 5. Since these nonpreserved products don’t have a long shelf life, our hard-pressed housewife would have to go shopping often.