The most direct way to gather objective information about children is to observe them in the course of their everyday lives to r
ecord what happens. Since the presence of a stranger (that is, the researcher) is likely to be intrusive in many situations, the ideal strategy is to arrange to have the children observed by someone who ordinarily spends time with them—a parent, or teacher, for example. (Michael Cole and Sheila R. Cole, The Development of Children) How many claims are in this passage?
Claims are statements of what the author believes to be true about some situation.
In this passage the claims founds are:
1. <em>The most direct way to gather objective information about children is to observe them in the course of their everyday lives to record what happens</em>.
2. <em>Since the presence of a stranger (that is, the researcher) is likely to be intrusive in many situations.</em>
<em>3. The ideal strategy is to arrange to have the children observed by someone who ordinarily spends time with them.</em>
In factor market individuals supply factors such as labor in return for wages, rent and interest while in the product market firms supply products and individuals pay for them.
