<span>To persuade officials and citizens to be more conscious about sanitation
to inform readers about new ideas about the disease using scientific evidence as support
to narrate the consequences of contracting the disease
to describe the lack of sanitation at the time of the story.</span>
Answer:
A). However, the most successful way of combating smallpox before the discovery of vaccination was inoculation.
Explanation:
Central claim is elucidated as the key idea or argument that functions to unify the work in a single coherent thought.
The first option states the controlling idea of the given excerpt as it dominates the entire passage. It conveys the main idea of 'inoculation being one of the most successful ways to combat smallpox prior to the discovery of vaccination' to the reader which serves the key purpose of the author('to inform them about the treatment of smallpox before the discovery of vaccination'). It is the <u>central claim of the author that unifies the various ideas of the excerpt together in a unified thought</u>. Thus, <u>option A</u> is the correct answer.
Answer:
C. Blazing sun
Explanation:
Blazing sun is a description of the sun. The other answer choices are just objects.
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Could you be more specific like what’s the name of the story and list the answer selections
