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Joychap77 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
What Is The Main Point of This Passage?
In embarking on the fight for independence, America faced formidable obstacles. The Continental Congress did not have the authority to pass binding legislation or to impose taxes. The new nation had no army and no navy, and its population numbered only 2.5 million people, 20 percent of whom were slaves. Britain, by contrast, was a mighty power of 11 million people with the world's best navy and a well-disciplined army. Fifty thousand troops were in North America in 1778, and Britain hired thirty thousand German soldiers to supplement its forces during the war (from An American History by Rebecca Brooks Gruver).
What is the main point of the passage?
1. Britain was a great power whose population out numbered that of America.
2. America's military forces were less experienced than Britain's military.
3. America's Continental Congress had limited authority.
4. As America was about to engage in its struggle for autonomy, it was faced with arduous barriers.
What is the main point of the passage?
1. Britain was a great power whose population out numbered that of America.
2. America's military forces were less experienced than Britain's military.
3. America's Continental Congress had limited authority.
4. As America was about to engage in its struggle for autonomy, it was faced with arduous barriers.
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Hello Joychap;
We would like you to try to get an answer first. Please post what you think the answer is when you post a homework problem.
That will help you to learn how to answer similar questions, so you can do well on tests when we won't be there to give you the answers.
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Can somebody please tell me that number 2 or number 3 is correct in this sentence being the main point of the passage? I say 2 because it does talk about how the American military is less experienced than Britian's military. I say number 3 because it does state that the American Continental Congress didn't have the authority to pass the binding legislation.
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Hi Joychap,
I am trying to learn myself, so my opinion probably wouldn't count, but I think the main idea in the given passage is best expressed in number 4.
1, 2 and 3 depict only different parts of the passage but do not represent the main idea. This is how I understand it.
By the way, where can I find tests of the kind? It would be a good practice for me.
I am trying to learn myself, so my opinion probably wouldn't count, but I think the main idea in the given passage is best expressed in number 4.
1, 2 and 3 depict only different parts of the passage but do not represent the main idea. This is how I understand it.
By the way, where can I find tests of the kind? It would be a good practice for me.
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Hello Joycap;
Here is a hint.
The main point of a paragraph is very often in the first sentence (as an introduction) or the last sentence (as a conclusion and reiteration of a thesis statement).
Does that change your answer?
Here is a hint.
The main point of a paragraph is very often in the first sentence (as an introduction) or the last sentence (as a conclusion and reiteration of a thesis statement).
Does that change your answer?
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Hello Agarista! Thanks anyways for responding and we can still learn off of each other. I totally and completely understand that your trying to learn yourself. I didn't know exactly that it was supposed to represent the main idea. I actually thought that it was supposed to talk about it somewhere in the given passage. The questions I post on here were actually from my instructor, but I am sure tha
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Hello Alphecca Stars! I would change my answer to number one (1). Is the main point of the passage number 1? I came up with this answer because Britian's military had 11 million and America's military only had 2.5 million people.
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Hi Joy;
Here is the first sentence in the paragraph:
In embarking on the fight for independence, America faced formidable obstacles.
The rest of the paragraph describes all these obstacles:
The government had no money (no taxes)
They had no army.
There was no navy.
The were outnumbered and out-gunned.
It was a tiny mouse fighting against a
Here is the first sentence in the paragraph:
In embarking on the fight for independence, America faced formidable obstacles.
The rest of the paragraph describes all these obstacles:
The government had no money (no taxes)
They had no army.
There was no navy.
The were outnumbered and out-gunned.
It was a tiny mouse fighting against a
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Hello AlpheccaStars! I don't see anywhere exactly in the paragraph where it talks specifically about money. It stated that the Continental Congress didn't have the authority to pass binding legislation or impose taxes. In the rest of the paragraph, your phrasing the obstacles in your own words such as them being out-numbered and out-gunned. I will answer your questions as follows: 1. First of all,
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Joychap77I would say number 4 is the main theme of the paragraph. My reason for picking this one is because in the first sentence of the paragraph, number four (4) is just phrased a little bit different than number one (1). Is this right?Yes. the paragraph talks about all the difficulties that the Americans faced to win their independence.
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Thanks, I found a sample containing the same questions. I have a little bit of a hard time with the sentence skills questions, it seems as though all of the multiple choices given to replace a part of a sentence f
Remember to do a Google Search for Multiple Choice English Tests or something like that and I am sure a bunch of different sites will probably come up.
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