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Short Answer Exercise 7
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Read the following main-idea sentences carefully. Then decide which of the following methods of paragraph development explained in Chapter 4 you would predict the writer to use in support. Answers follow.

facts/statistics example/illustration cause-effect
comparison definition analysis
contrast classification analogy
process (informative) process (directive)





1The bathroom is the most dangerous room in the house.



2Of all species of birds, crows are the most intelligent.



3In the past five years there has been an encouraging decrease in the number of unwanted teenage pregnancies.



4There are two primary reasons that teen pregnancy rates have declined.



5The recent decline in teen pregnancies will have a significant impact on state welfare programs.



6Although both claim nearly 100 percent reliability, Depo-Provera has considerably greater advantages over the conventional birth control pill.



7Despite our antipathy toward these rodents, there are a surprising number of similarities between men and rats.



8Despite its convenient location near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., the Tabard Inn is a terrible place to stay.



9Jared Diamond's award-winning book, Collapse, is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the fate of human societies.



10Despite their common thematic treatment of suburban mores and marriage, John Cheever and John Updike, two well-known American fiction writers, have quite distinct styles of writing.



11To understand the meaning of the word ennui, we have to look at its etymology.



12Astronomers recognize three types of nebulae.



13One way to understand the structure and workings of the human heart is to compare it to a pump.



14Book Passage, located in Corte Madera and San Francisco, has the most extensive collection of travel books in the Bay Area.



15According to Ruth Reichl's new book. Garlic and Sapphires, describing her experiences as the restaurant critic for the New York Times, fancy restaurants treat people differently depending on their status and appearance.



16Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, once revealed the main character's shallowness by comparing him to an onion.



17Before you can use the World Wide Web efficiently, you must first know how to use a search engine.



18An examination of the issue of illegal immigration shows many factors that must be thoroughly explored to understand the complexities involved.



19Bureaucracies are notoriously inefficient, as an incident that I experienced recently will show.



20Doctors prefer the closed MRI system to the open system.







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