In expository texts, what is the author's purpose? Question 10 options:

To entertain the reader

To make money

To inform the reader

To persuade the reader

In which type of essay would you expect to find the following passage? during the civil war, the economies of the northern and southern states differed: the north was industrial, while the south was agricultural. while sometimes these interests allowed for mutual economic goals, they also contributed in part to the conflict that fueled the onset of the civil war.