Question

thursday, february 12
warm-up:
a musical crescendo builds as the viewer visually plummets through the milky way, descending ever closer toward earth. there is an explosion of sound and color--cut to a space-age city of apartment buildings perched on columns high in the air. out of one of these futuristic structures flies a small glass-domed vehicle. it does a quick aerial loop, and a typical twenty-first-century family is revealed inside. the soundtrack begins to sing. \meet george jetson! his boy elroy...\ as the song introduces each family member, george dispatches each one out of the vehicle in a little glass pod, literally dropping them off at their destinations. finally, george lands at spacely space sprockets, inc.. his vehicle folds up into a briefcase, and a moving sidewalk deposits him at his desk.
read the dictionary entry
aerial / ˈer-i-əl / adj

1. imaginary or lacking substance 2. suspended by a track or cable 3. happening in the air 4. relating up toward the sky

which definition best matches the use of the word aerial in paragraph 5?
name class pd
week 8 warm-ups
we can introduce text evidence with phrases like,
________
definition ____ best matches the use of the word because
________

Explanation:

1. First, locate the word "aerial" in the passage: it describes a "loop" performed by a flying vehicle.
2. Match this context to the dictionary definitions: the action happens while the vehicle is in the air.
3. For the text evidence phrase, standard academic phrasing to introduce supporting details includes phrases like "According to the text," or "The passage states that," which directly link claims to the source text.

Answer:

1. The phrase to introduce text evidence (example): According to the text
2. Definition 3. Happening in the air best matches the use of the word because the "aerial loop" is a maneuver performed by a flying vehicle while it is in the air.