Question
Read the following paragraph.
(1) When my friend Tom works in the kitchen, disaster often results. (2) Once he tried to make toasted cheese sandwiches for us by putting slices of cheese in the toaster along with the bread; he ruined the toaster. (3) Unfortunately, the toaster was a fairly new one that I had just bought for him three weeks before, on his birthday. (4) On another occasion, he cut up some fresh beans and put them in a pot to steam. (5) I was really looking forward to the beans. (6) I, frankly, am not much of a cook either. (7) The water in the pan steamed away while Tom was on the telephone, and both the beans and the the pans were ruined. (8) Finally, another time Tom made spaghetti for us, and the noodles stuck so tightly together that we had to cut off slices with a knife and fork. (9) In addition, the meatballs were burned on the outside but almost raw on the inside. (10) The tomato sauce, on the other hand, turned out well. (11) For some reason, Tom is very good at making meat and vegetable sauces. (12) Because of Tom's kitchen mishaps, I never eat at his place without money in case we have to go out to eat.
Which one of these sentences can be omitted?
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(1) When my friend Tom works in the kitchen, disaster often results. (2) Once he tried to make toasted cheese sandwiches for us by putting slices of cheese in the toaster along with the bread; he ruined the toaster. (3) Unfortunately, the toaster was a fairly new one that I had just bought for him three weeks before, on his birthday. (4) On another occasion, he cut up some fresh beans and put them in a pot to steam. (5) I was really looking forward to the beans. (6) I, frankly, am not much of a cook either. (7) The water in the pan steamed away while Tom was on the telephone, and both the beans and the the pans were ruined. (8) Finally, another time Tom made spaghetti for us, and the noodles stuck so tightly together that we had to cut off slices with a knife and fork. (9) In addition, the meatballs were burned on the outside but almost raw on the inside. (10) The tomato sauce, on the other hand, turned out well. (11) For some reason, Tom is very good at making meat and vegetable sauces. (12) Because of Tom's kitchen mishaps, I never eat at his place without money in case we have to go out to eat.
Which one of these sentences can be omitted?
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Answers
GPT-4o mini
Sentence 6 ("I, frankly, am not much of a cook either.") can be omitted. While it provides additional information about the narrator's cooking skills, it does not add much to the overall context of Tom's kitchen disasters. The paragraph can still maintain its coherence and focus on Tom's mishaps without this sentence.