Question

[1] Cory tried out for his school play, Rumors, by Neil Simon. [2] Cory got the part of “Ken.” [3] Cory attended rehearsal every day after school, and he practiced his lines every night. [4] Cory was fantastic on opening night. [5] Cory made the audience laugh!
Why does this paragraph lack sentence variety?

Each sentence begins with the subject.

Each sentence begins with a dependent clause.

Each sentence begins with a prepositional phrase.

Each sentence begins with the predicate

Answer 1

Answer: A)  Each sentence begins with the subject.

Explanation: the subject of a sentence is the person, animal or thing that performs the action of the verb. In the given paragraph we can see that all of the sentences start with the word "Cory" which is the subject of the sentences. This repetition helps the paragraph to have lacking of sentence variety, to fix that the writer should use pronouns to replace the subject, or combine some of the sentences using conjunctions.

Answer 2

Each sentence begins with the subject