What is the reason this argument is weak or wrong? "Critical thinking should be tough in school."

What organizing principle or principles are used in the paragraph?

Soloha48 [4]

After a thorough research, there exists the same question with the paragraph.

Both petroleum and coal are made up of complex carbon-based molecules, and both originated with living creatures of some kind. Both are vital sources of energy for the modern world and both were formed by geologic processes over millions of years. However, petroleum was mainly formed from the remains of ocean-dwelling microorganisms. Coal, on the other hand, originated from decayed vegetation in ancient swamps and bogs. In any case, it took millions of years for both coal and oil to be produced. This is the case because it took that much time for overlying sediments to produce the unimaginable heat and pressure that would one day allow us to harvest these energy resources.

The paragraph uses 'Compare and Contrast' organization. It presented us the differences and similarities between coal and petroleum.

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3 years ago

This impact was felt from the bottom up, and these contributions to

charle [14.2K]

Answer:

It is a compound-complex sentence

Explanation:

To answer this question we need to understand what the definitions are:

A simple sentence has just one independent clause or one complete thought. It has one subject, one verb, and modifiers.

A complex sentence has one independent clause (one subject, a verb, its modifiers, and a complete thought; this sentence can stand alone) and one dependent clause (it doesn't have a complete thought, it depends on the independent clause).

A compound sentence has two independent clauses, they can stand alone, both of them have a complete thought, and they are joined by coordinating conjunctions 'and', 'but', 'or'.

A complex-compound sentence has two independent clauses that can stand on their own without losing a complete thought, and one dependent clause (it can't stand alone; it depends on the independent clause).

So let's look at the given sentence:

This impact was felt from the bottom up, and these contributions to

American institutions may be the ones which most intimately affect the

lives of all Americans.

We can see that the first clause is independent - This impact was felt from the bottom up - it has a complete thought; it can stand alone.

The other clause is also independent - and these contributions to

American institutions may be the ones - it has a complete thought; it can stand alone; it is connected to the other clause with coordinating conjunction 'and'.

The last clause is the dependent clause - which most intimately affects the lives of all Americans - it can't stand alone; it doesn't have a complete thought. To be exact it is an adjective clause, it explains the noun 'contributions' or the pronoun 'one'.

So, we have two independent clauses and one dependent. It is a complex-compound sentence.

I hope it helped you :)

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3 years ago

In act 2 shakespeare draws parallels between brutus and caesar in all of the following ways except which

damaskus [11]

The answer will be D

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3 years ago

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Which of the following would best replace the underlined portion of this sentence?

babunello [35]

Answer:

B. a condensed

Explanation:

In the context of time, abbreviated means shorter. When it comes to play, this shortening is usually done by omitting some of the scenes or dialogue.

In this sense, this word can be replaced by word "condense" since we are talking about fitting something longer lasting into shorter period of time.

Of course, one should not forget that these two words aren't synonyms, and that they mustn't be used as such in every context.

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2 years ago

Highlight all the words that make up the dependent clause below.

Serggg [28]

Answer: “before she planned her trip”

Explanation:

The independent clause can stand alone as a simple sentence. In this case, the independent clause would be “Lena Luthor researched New York City's main attractions”. The dependent clause would be “before she planned her trip” because it cannot stand alone.

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