Use Syntactical Structures Strategically Practice Test

Read the following excerpt from a campus sustainability memo about energy use. The author notes that leaving classroom lights on overnight costs an estimated $24,000 annually and that motion sensors could cut that by half. The author argues that small defaults scale. One switch matters, not because it is heroic, but because it is repeatable.

Which explanation best accounts for the author's decision to structure the bolded sentence this way?

Read the following excerpt from an opinion piece about online privacy. The author notes that a popular fitness app shared location data that allowed journalists to infer users’ home addresses; the company called it “anonymized.” The author argues that privacy policies often shift responsibility to users. You can click ‘I agree’ in two seconds, but you can’t unshare your life in two years.

The author's use of the bolded sentence structure primarily serves to…