Which guideline from The Art of Conversation is not being followed in the following scenario? Jessica and Elizabeth are planning a birthday party for a friend. Elizabeth: Did you get the invitations? Jessica: Yep—50 of 'em. Elizabeth: What about the decorations? Jessica: Yeah, speaking of decorations, did you hear that the homecoming committee spent half the year's budget on the decorations for the royalty float?
1.) Be exact.
2.)Be relevant.
3.)Express your thoughts in a logical order.
4.)Avoid getting overly emotional.

what is the purpose of the description in this passage from travels with charley?

to explain how he develops friendships with people

to show his fear of the man

to show that people in the bad lands are dangerous

to show the similarity between the man and the place

they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.  

explanation:

if they were going to steal the answers that is simply because they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.  

type of error:

the error in the sentence is a "dangling modifier". a dangling modifier is a phrase, word or clause that "dangles" because there is not target to modify. in this case, "after mopping the floor" is the dangling modifier since it has no word to modify. the noun "house" cannot mop the floor; therefore there is a mistake in the writing of the sentence.

your eyes are the first things that you open