What is the purpose of the article? The purpose of the article is to describe the way the Manakin bird use its body parts to make sounds.
Does the purpose involve a hypothesis? If so, What is it? Yes, the writer is trying to prove and explain how the Manakin bird uses its wings to produce sounds.
List any scientific terms or phrases used in the article and write the definition of each term. Ornithologist: The branch of zoology that studies birds; Avifauna: The birds of a given region, considered as a whole.
What's the conclusion drawn by the writer? List the pieces of evidence cited by the writer to support his conclusion. The conclusion is that the Manakin has specialized feathers in his wings, which it knocks together 107 times per second to produce sound. Evidence cited: "The bird was knocking its wings together 107 times per second. Examining the birds secondary feathers in the lab, I saw on each wing a specialized feather with 7 separate ridges".

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3 years ago

What’s a declarative sentence ?

Vsevolod [243]

A declarative sentence is a statement that ends with a period. It states facts or an opinion and lets the reader know something specific. All of these sentences were declarative.

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4 years ago

The pictures were hard to see because they were blurry. Tonia decided to shoot a new roll of film.

Whitepunk [10]

A. The pictures were hard to see because they were blurry, so Tonia decided to shoot a new roll of film

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3 years ago

Old skiers never die, they just go downhill, explain the humor and the punning word

xxTIMURxx [149]

-The humor of the saying is that a skier goes downhill when he or she skies.

-The punning word in the saying is 'they just go downhill'.

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4 years ago