Read this passage. Thomas Jefferson was a statesman, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers, and the third president of the United States. Jefferson is also known for designing and building his home Monticello over a forty-year period.

Which sentence could be added to the passage and maintain its formal style?

Jefferson must have been a really smart guy to be able to do all that during his life.

Monticello must be pretty awesome after Jefferson worked on it for forty years.

Monticello was built on a mountaintop near Charlottesville, Virginia, in a neoclassical style.

Can you believe how long it took Jefferson to build his house?