Exercise 30.2 Revising inconsistent formality

EXERCISE 30.2

Revise each of these sentences to use formal language consistently. Example:

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  1. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Desdemona just lies down like some kind of wimp and accepts her death as inevitable.

    Question

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    In Shakespeare’s Othello, Desdemona just lies down like some kind of wimp and accepts her death as inevitable.
  2. 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.

    Question

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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.
  3. Finding all that bling in King Tut’s tomb was one of the biggest archeological scores of the twentieth century.

    Question

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    Finding all that bling in King Tut’s tomb was one of the biggest archeological scores of the twentieth century.
  4. 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.

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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. 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.

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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.