The more accurate you try to become, the more deep you have to dig!
Answer:
1) This passage does not contain an argument. It begins with a comment that everyone knows the U.S. is having an election (in 2008); the author proceeds to state three things that he thinks Europe should focus on. He does not offer reasons for his statement that these three things are jobs, Muslims, and neighbors.
2) This passage contains both an argument and a sub-argument. 1.The butler was passionately in love with the victim. Thus, 2. It was not the butler who committed the murder. 3. Either the butler committed the murder or the judge committed the murder. Therefore, 4. The judge committed the murder. The sub-argument goes from (1) to (2), and the main argument goes from (2) and (3) to (4). Note again: identifying the structure does not imply saying that this is a good argument.
3) This passage contains an argument. Standardization: (1) No one who uses a relatively unreliable procedure in order to decide whether to punish can know whether that other person deserves punishment. (2) No one who cannot know whether another person deserves punishment has a right to punish that person. Therefore, (3) No one who uses a relatively unreliable procedure in order to decide whether to punish another person has a right to punish that person.
Answer:
reaching the finals is the dangling modifier
1. Water-beetle darted in every direction over
the surface of the water but could find no
firm place to rest.
2. Earth was afterward fastened to the sky
with four cords, but no one remembers
who did it.
3. When all was water, the animals were
above in Galûñ’lati, beyond the arch;
but it was very much crowded, and they
wanted more room.
4. Water-beetle dived to the bottom and came
up with some soft mud, which began to grow
and spread on every side until it became the
island that we call Earth.
5. The animals wondered what was below
the water, and at last Dâyuni’si, "Beaver’s
Grandchild," the little Water-Beetle, offered
to go and see if it could learn.
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