HELP ME OUT PLEASE! Read the following excerpt: 'If you don't know how to swim, or you want to brush up your skills, you'll want to take some lessons at your local pool.
What is the author's purpose for including this sentence in the article?

A) To inform the readers that swimming lessons can be expensive.

B) To entertain the readers with a fun suggestion about swimming.

C) To persuade the readers to leam to swim or improve on their swimming skills.

D) To persuade the readers to take his swimming class.​

Read the passage from a raisin in the sun. mama: lord have mercy, baby. you done gone and bought your grandmother a hat? travis (very proud): open it! she does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it. ruth: travis, honey, what is that? travis (who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate): it's a gardening hat! like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens. beneatha (giggling fiercely): travis—we were trying to make mama mrs. miniver—not scarlett o'hara! mama (indignantly): what's the matter with you all! this here is a beautiful hat! (absurdly.) i always wanted me one just like it! which word or phrase from the text best supports the idea that the adults think the hat is inappropriate? “have mercy” (giggling fiercely) (indignantly) “what’s the matter”