Question

The city council's proposed ban on plastic bags is definitely not the way to go. What about the smaller grocery stores that don't have the money to replace plastic with the more expensive paper bags? Their profit margins are already razor thin compared to the bigger supermarkets. The city council members who support this ban should be voted out of office during the next election.

Which change is the best revision to reflect a formal tone for the speech's audience?

A. Change "razor thin" to "extremely tiny."

B. Change "voted out of office" to "removed from their current positions."

C. Change "don't have the money" to "do not make enough profit."

D. Change "definitely not the way to go" to "a completely worthless idea."

Answer 1

C. Change "don't have the money" to "do not make enough profit."

Step-by-step explanation:

A formal tone is a style of speaking or writing in a polite, and more proper manner, that often contains descriptive, precise and elegant words, longer sentences and it is totally free from idioms, colloquialism, slang, and contractions. Thus, when making the change of "don't have the money" to "do not make enough profit", we add more formality to the text as this sentence does not have any contractions and it has more elegant and precise words like "profit".

Answer 2

The answer is C: Change "don't have the money" to "do not make enough profit."

The phrase is of a more formal tone because it uses the correct and less ambiguous terms, specifically in reference to profit margins. “To not have the money” could be considered a misleading or inaccurate phrase, whereas the option provided avoids this equivocal sense by clearly stating that the speaker is referring to profits and not just money in general.