1. How would you characterize the tone of the following paragraph that came from a letter a tenant sent to a landlord?
If you want your rent this month, you better do something about the leaky kitchen faucet. I've told
you about this at least five times and you still haven't done anything about it. The dripping at night
is driving me crazy. I don't know why I ever decided to rent such a pigsty. But if you don't do
something about it, I'm going to go to the city and complain and tell them you're renting a roach-
infested dump to innocent people.
2. Change the voice of the preceding paragraph by rewriting it to reflect a softer tone.
3. How would you characterize the voice in the following excerpts? Describe the vocabulary, syntax
and attitude evident in each passage:

the answer is b i think

light-year  

the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year, equal to about 9.46 trillion km (5.88 trillion mi). light-years are used in measuring interstellar and intergalactic distances.  

parsec  

a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.25 light years (3.08 × 1016 meters).  

parallax  

the apparent angular displacement of a celestial body due to its being observed from the surface instead of from the center of the earth (diurnal parallax or geocentric parallax) or due to its being observed from the earth instead of from the sun (annual parallax or heliocentric parallax)  

absolute magnitude  

the magnitude (brightness) of a celestial object as it would be seen at a standard distance of 10 parsecs.  

apparent magnitude  

the magnitude of a celestial object as it is actually measured from the earth.  

redshift  

an increase in the wavelength of radiation emitted by a celestial body as a consequence of the doppler effect.  

the great thing about your imagination is that it doesn't have to make sense! if i were you i would be stuck in space, no communication with earth travelling around and around, you can only guess how long its been since your communication broke down. you land on an undiscovered planet, you do a scientific investigation examining the elements and conditions. you come across alien lifeforms.  

best of luck!