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WILL GIVE CROWN AND FREE PTS! Read the following paragraph and select the author's purpose in writing that paragraph.

It's finally here! A complete set of kitchen knives that chop, slice, and dice vegetables with just the flick of your wrist. No more sawing away on those tough tomatoes skins. Our paring knife makes salad making a pleasure. The bread knife cuts through hard loaves like butter. Act now and receive a complete set of steak knives. They'll slice meat, not shred it. The whole package is yours for just . . .
to express strong feelings
to persuade
to inform
to give pleasure

User Tyralcori
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Answer:

to inform

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User Alan Friedman
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It sounds like the author is marketing a product and trying to persuade the audience. It sounds like they’re saying we essentially cannot live without the knife and the passage even tells the reader to “act now” to receive a set so the best answer would be “to persuade.”
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