What would you do if you had an extra $5 million to spend? That's what the City Council has found in its budget, and it's turning into a big problem because each branch of our city services wants to have it for its own. Last week, you recommended spending the budget surplus on street repair. One reader suggested expanding the library. I have a better suggestion: Let's improve the zoo!

Which best represents the author's main argument?

What would you do if you had an extra $5 million to spend?

I have a better suggestion: Let's improve the zoo!

Last week, you recommended spending the budget surplus on street repair.

That's what the City Council has found in its budget, and it's turning into a big problem because each branch of our city services wants to have it for its own.

I have a better suggestion: Let's improve the zoo!

Explanation:

An argument is the main point being stressed by the author, and it is usually supported by a claim, a report or evidence. The main argument can be located anywhere in the writeup.

In the given essay, the writer started with a question of what a City could do with an extra $5 million. The second sentence saw him explaining the source of the information which is the City Council budget. The next two sentences show different suggestions from different people.

The last sentence highlights his main argument which is that the $5 million dollars should be used to improve the zoo.

bc

explanation:

because it crosses through the circle twice

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .