It was too hazy to be sunny. Less cotton wool than curdled milk. Thunderstorm weather. How do you work out the differences like that from sounds, Masha pondered, as she slipped out of
the open door, which was covered with a curtain against mosquitoes, and into the morning air.
Why do the trolleybus wires sing even when there's no wind, she wondered. She returned to her
home: Icarus the trolleybus. Lots of buses that drove around had the name ICARUS written on
their fronts, but there was only one trolleybus called Icarus. And only this one trolleybus was
home to a little girl called Masha and her very old grandmother.

The writer mostly uses long sentences here. why? Tick two boxes.

to build up descriptive detail.

to add emphasis to the description.

to create a slow, relaxing pace.

to explain why the action takes place.

to show a sequence of events.​