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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Textual Analysis 2. Which sentence would be the best evidence to support the argument?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by football [People playing football]

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games one of the only places where you can tackle someone and throw them to the

00:10

ground without going to jail all right well let's read the following paragraph....

00:13

[Mumbling]

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And here's our question well if

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you want to argue that football is physically dangerous for players which

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sentence would be the best evidence to support your argument and here are our

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potential answers.... So we want to be on the lookout for the

00:40

sentence that uses examples that support the idea of football being physically [Football player running]

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dangerous because the best evidence is well evidence we've got quite a few

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options here so let's see which one is the best evidence starting with A.. being

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egged on by cruel selfish coaches who only care about their team winning [Coach with a team of champions]

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definitely doesn't sound great but remember we're trying to argue that

01:00

football is physically dangerous for players not emotionally or mentally [Boys jumping on top of each other]

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dangerous for them maybe as annoying as those coaches might be they're not

01:08

causing physical harm so the answer can't be A...what about B This feels a

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bit closer since this sentence talks about negative effects but unfortunately it

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doesn't really spell out what these negative effects are you know there [Footballer being stretchered off a field]

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might be physical harm but they might also be embarrassment from having to

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wear ugly uniforms so B is out, how about C

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well this one just seems plain wrong sure it's a shame that football players

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might be falling behind on arts and crafts but you don't usually get [Boy painting a bird house]

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physically injured by being bad at making birdhouses usually so C's gone too

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- looks like we're almost out of options what about D now this is evidence yeah

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Thank You D the sentence not only tells us that students who play football are

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at risk but also what kind of risk they're facing brain injury and [Boy in hospital with head bandaged]

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disability so D is our answer luckily for us there's very little

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chance of physical danger when answering multiple-choice questions at shmoop [Girl flicking through a book]

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unless you happen to do it in the middle of a football game in which case you

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might want to rethink your life choices [Person using laptop on football field and people jump on top]

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