Author's Purpose Practice

What is the author’s purpose for writing this?

It was Maria’s wedding day, and all of the details were set perfectly. The pink and green flowers sat beautifully on the tables, her dress was neatly ironed, and the rings were ready to be put around their fingers. Today would be the best day of her life, and she was so thrilled!

• to persuade

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• to entertain

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The bakery down the street makes the world’s best chocolate chip cookies. Somehow, they are always perfectly warm, with a gooey center, and just the right amount of chocolate chips. I would walk twenty blocks if it meant I could have one of their luscious cookies! Buying any other chocolate chip cookie isn’t even worth it now that I have found these!

• to persuade

• to inform

• to entertain

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Computers are useful tools that many people couldn’t live without. They are used for word processing, sending and receiving emails, research, and social networking. Over the past twenty years, computers have changed in so many ways, and researchers are constantly coming up with new

ideas for computers.

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• to inform

• to entertain

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Grape Gatorade is the best way to keep you hydrated when you’re outside exercising. Water is good, too, but be sure to not drink soda as it can make you even more thirsty. Don’t even bother with the other flavors of Gatorade—they all taste like medicine! Grape is most definitely the way to go.

• to persuade

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• to entertain

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Since he had recently moved from Arizona to Colorado, Ben had his very first snow day this year! He spent the entire day dragging his sled up the hill and then zooming down it. When he was finished, he ran inside with a huge smile on his face. His mom had a mug of hot cocoa ready for him, and he had barely finished it when he ran out the door to play in the snow some more!

• to persuade

• to inform

• to entertain

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There are four strokes in the sport of swimming: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. There are two options when swimming competitively: short course or long course swimming. Swimming can be both a team sport or an individual sport.

• to persuade

• to inform

• to entertain

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