The main purpose of this text is to:
to my knowledge, my grandad reached the ripe old age of 95 without ever touching a glass of water. unless he was nipping off to secretly glug pint after pint of h2o in the garden shed, all i saw him drinking were countless cups of builder’s tea (3 sugars in each) and a steaming hot mug of cocoa every evening before bed.
on long car trips he probably did get a bit dry, because without doubt a plastic water bottle never touched his lips. in fact, when i was sorting through his possessions, the closest bottle-like object that i came to was a dusty old flask made in 1964 – minus its lid.
today i sit back sometimes and think what my grandad and his pals would make of the obsession many of us have developed around the subject of something as simple as water.
which is correct for main purpose?
1. entertain
2. describe
3. persuade
4. instruct

"and these i address to all females that would be married, or are already so; not that i suppose their sex more faulty than the other, and most to want advice, for i assure [women], upon my honour, i believe the quite contrary; but the reason is, because i esteem them better disposed to receive and practice it, and therefore am willing to begin, where i may promise myself the best success." this statement from franklin's "rules and maxims for promoting matrimonial happiness" best demonstrates his use of criticism to argue his point his use of common sense to appeal to women his use of flattery to gain women's attention his use of facts to prove his point

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At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.