Answer:
The author's main argument in his essay was to tell how to develop scientific claims reaching to it's final conclusion rather than fascinating claims.
Explanation:
'Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs' is an essay written by Stephen Jay Gould, a Professor of Geology at Harvard University.
In his essay he explains how dinosaurs extinction took place by elaborating the three elements– sex, drugs, and disaster. By detailing each and every aspects, Gould presents how a good scientific proposal is elaborated. He starts his essay by defining science and how conclusions are reached through series of consequences and not by fascination. Then he goes on the explain his points and reaching the conclusion of his thesis.
Therefore, the main argument by Gould in this essay was to educate his readers how to develop scientific claims reaching to it's final conclusion rather than fascinating claims.
Answer: C) It is a dependent clause.
Explanation: an independent clause is a sentence that has complete meaning on its own (it has at least a subject, a verb and all the necessary complements), a dependent clause is the contrary, is a phrase that, in order to make sense, it needs to be with an independent clause. The given excerpt is a clear example of a dependent clause, because as we can see, it doesn't have complete sense, we can tell that it is missing something.
Major Kovaloff believes that witchcraft is what took his nose.
He knows a woman that wanted to marry her daughter to him, but he had often rejected. He thinks that to get her revenge, she "must have hired
some witches to spirit it away," which is the only way he could think his nose could have possibly disappeared.
Elpenor, Anticlea, and Tiresias
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