Identify the various purposes in writing.
1. We thought our first day in the Everglades would be dull, but one impatient girl in our group proved us very, very wrong.
Chief purpose: To narrate
2. On that day in the Everglades everything dripped--the cypresses and live oaks dripped; the alligators rearing from the black waters dripped; and we dripped, our hair, eyebrows, noses, chins, armpits, and elbows constantly, endlessly dripped.
Chief purpose: To describe
3. If you think the Everglades are just one big, forbidding swamp, think again--their 4,000 square miles include 500,000 acres of farmland and one of the greatest collections of wildlife a tourist might care to see.
Chief purpose: To inform
4. If we don't make the federal government settle conflicts over water among the city of Miami, the park conservationists, and the local farmers, some eighty-five percent of the Everglades' 500,000 acres of farmland will turn sterile in twenty years.
Chief purpose: To persuade
5.Some people love the Everglades; as for me, I agree with the contest people who said their first prize was one week in the Everglades, and their second prize was two weeks in the Everglades.
Chief purpose: ?
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