The gerund in this sentence is "learning". A gerund is a verb form which is acting as a noun, in this case after the preposition "in".
Answer:
The fallacy which the above sentence is an example of is:
B. overgeneralization
Explanation:
Overgeneralization is a type of fallacy in which a biased judgment or conclusion is drawn upon. Also, the evidence given to support the judgment does not contain sufficient evidence to prove itself. The judgment is based on some prior experience. In the above statement, the judgment about the author is made by his last book which brings to highlight overgeneralization fallacy in it.
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Civil rights are an essential component of democracy.
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Use context clues to determine the underlined word. Explain what strategy you used to determine the meaning of the word. Mrs. Milburn <u>admonished</u> the students who did not turn in their multimedia presentations. She told them they had until tomorrow morning to complete the presentations or else the students would have to go to detention.
Answer:
The word "admonished" as used in the above text means "to advise".
Explanation:
To get to the meaning of the word "admonished," I literally followed the context clues, that is, I read the whole text and realized that the password Milburn was giving a warning to the students, she was informing about their multimedia presentations. Thus, in the context of the text, I realized that the word "admonished" was related to "warn," "inform." After that conclusion, I went to get the meaning of the word in a dictionary and saw that I was correct.
