Identify each sentence as having an inappropriate shift in either person or number.
I like living on the beach where
you can hear the waves.

I washed the shirts and the dress
and dried it in the sun.

When the Stewart brothers were
kids, you had to take the long
road to school.

The farmer fed the cows and
gave it water to drink.

the correct answer is a. how to make proposal that works.

indeed, the register is quite formal and the tone is especially objective as it avoids the use of the first and second person singular (i, you) and opts instead for the third person plural which is more impersonal and focuses on the data and the argument that is being developed by the author. the formality adds the impression of respectability to the work and the impersonality adds objectivity to it.