Each excerpt from the passage has been matched with the tone It conveys as follows:
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Shaw was a drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1859-98. Informative
- "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." Opinion-based
- Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Informative
- Shaw's style of writing became so popular that his plays actually came to be termed as "Shavian comedies." Informative
- "His ideas were those of a somewhat abstract logical radicalism; hence they were far from new, but they received from him a new definiteness and brilliance..." Critical
The tone of a text is the feeling the reader has because of the word choices in the text.
An informative tone is sensed when the writer simply provides information about a subject. An opinion-based text is one that states the views of the writer.
A critical tone is sensed when one judges a text or passage. Given this understanding, the excerpts have been correctly matched.
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