Read this lighthearted essay about riding a bike. Which three descriptions reflect the purpose of this essay?

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to entertain the reader with humorous ideas related to bike riding

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to instruct the reader about how to get on a bike

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to inform the reader about the process of learning to ride a bike

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to persuade the reader to learn to ride a bike as soon as possible

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to express a personal experience of riding a bike

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What three description reflects the purpose of this essay ?

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Read this lighthearted essay about riding a bike.

excerpt adapted from

Taming the Bicycle

by Mark Twain

The steps of one's progress are distinctly marked. At the end of each lesson, he knows he has acquired something. He also knows what that something is, and likewise, that it will stay with him. It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring a new verb tense on you, and there you are. No—and I see now, plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business. But I also see, by what I have learned of bicycling, that the right and only sure way to learn German is by the bicycling method. That is to say, take a grip on one difficulty at a time, and learn it—not ease up and move on to the next, leaving that one half learned.

When you have reached the point in bicycling where you can balance the machine tolerably fairly and propel it and steer it, then comes your next task—how to mount it. You do it in this way: you hop along behind it on your right foot, resting the other on the mounting-peg, and grasping the bars with your hands. At the word, you rise on the peg, stiffen your left leg, hang your other one around in the air in a general in indefinite way, lean your stomach against the rear of the saddle, and then fall off, maybe on one side, maybe on the other; but you fall off. You get up and do it again; and once more; and then several times.

Which three descriptions reflect the purpose of this essay?

to entertain the reader with humorous ideas related to bike riding

to inform the reader about the process of learning to ride a bike

to express a personal experience of riding a bike

to instruct the reader about how to get on a bike

to persuade the reader to learn to ride a bike as soon as possible

to entertain the reader with humorous ideas related to bike riding

to instruct the reader about how to get on a bike

to inform the reader about the process of learning to ride a bike

Explanation:

1. To instruct the reader about how to get on a bike.

2. To inform the reader about the process of learning to ride a bike.

3. To express a personal experience of riding a bike.

Explanation:

as we know, the english language is spoken all over the world by native and non-native speakers and has become the most certain tool when it comes to communicating. businesses, schools, even romantic relationships depend on it to keep thriving. in addition, it is the language of the internet not only because most of the content available is in english, but also because people prefer to use it when talking to others, since it's the language everyone supposedly learns.

yet, there have been some current claims that chinese will soon take over as the most important language in the world. china's magnitude has never been more evident and doing business with the chinese is a gold mine for any country. we now see language schools offering chinese courses as commonly as english.

however - even though we cannot deny china's importance and the advantage it is when someone takes the time to learn the language their business contact speaks-, people in general seem to be ignoring the aspects that seem to keep english as the chosen one of languages. one of them has been mentioned above: it is the language of the internet. also, chinese people are still learning english, since it opens doors in communicating with practically everyone else, from every single country.

note: if this is not the sort of transition you need, let me know. : d