Which is the best way to revise the sentence to include more precise wording? a. modern novelists often expand to other genres, such as screenwriting. b. modern writers often write books and other things, such as screenplays. c. many writers choose to write other things instead of books, such as movies. d. many novelists do good writing for books as well as for stuff like movies.

A. Modern novelists often expand to other genres, such as screenwriting.

Broad and generic words like "things" and "stuff" are too vague for formal writing. They make the author's points weak and not well thought out. Options B, C, and D use these vague words so they do not have precise wording. Option A uses the word genres instead of "things" or "stuff".

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

peace, morning, sun glooming, sorrow, woe pardon’d, punished, more hence, talk, story. all of these three words have to do something with a depressed, regretful tone. woe is another word for misery, heartache, so all of these words are about unhappy feelings.