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ACT Aspire Reading: Identifying the Main Point of a Specific Paragraph 7 Views
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What is the main purpose of the second paragraph?
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- 00:02
Okay Ccs buying reading shmoop er's Here we go five
- 00:04
of ten What is the main purpose of the second
- 00:08
paragraph The main idea is that amphibians are gross and
- 00:18
they exhibit quote highly specialized adaptations to the harsh glacier
- 00:23
climate Second paragraph supports the main idea of the passage
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- 00:25
by giving an example of an amphibian adaptation namely internal
- 00:29
fertilisation The paragraphs not a counter example of the argument
- 00:33
given in the first paragraph mostly because well there isn't
- 00:36
an argument in the first paragraph So get rid of
- 00:37
beak Many ideas don't always need to be arguments Sometimes
- 00:40
their statements of fact It's also not a transition between
- 00:43
one frog species Do another skipper to see there's no
- 00:45
frogger jumping action happening Your third paragraph still about the
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tailed frog The second paragraph also doesn't provide summary of
- 00:52
the adaptation of one species right So get rid of
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deep paragraph discusses the tailed frog adaptations that has helped
- 00:59
with mating and the next paragraph goes into further detail
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The second paragraph is not a summary of all cool
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evolutionary transformations of the tailed frog in one paragraph It's
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just kind of linking through so that's it It's an
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example It's a the end
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