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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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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by football [People playing football]
- 00:06
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]
- 00:25
And here's our question well if
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- 00:27
you want to argue that football is physically dangerous for players which
- 00:30
sentence would be the best evidence to support your argument and here are our
- 00:35
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]
- 00:45
dangerous because the best evidence is well evidence we've got quite a few
- 00:49
options here so let's see which one is the best evidence starting with A.. being
- 00:53
egged on by cruel selfish coaches who only care about their team winning [Coach with a team of champions]
- 00:57
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]
- 01:04
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
- 01:12
bit closer since this sentence talks about negative effects but unfortunately it
- 01:17
doesn't really spell out what these negative effects are you know there [Footballer being stretchered off a field]
- 01:20
might be physical harm but they might also be embarrassment from having to
- 01:24
wear ugly uniforms so B is out, how about C
- 01:27
well this one just seems plain wrong sure it's a shame that football players
- 01:30
might be falling behind on arts and crafts but you don't usually get [Boy painting a bird house]
- 01:34
physically injured by being bad at making birdhouses usually so C's gone too
- 01:39
- looks like we're almost out of options what about D now this is evidence yeah
- 01:44
Thank You D the sentence not only tells us that students who play football are
- 01:48
at risk but also what kind of risk they're facing brain injury and [Boy in hospital with head bandaged]
- 01:52
disability so D is our answer luckily for us there's very little
- 01:55
chance of physical danger when answering multiple-choice questions at shmoop [Girl flicking through a book]
- 01:58
unless you happen to do it in the middle of a football game in which case you
- 02:02
might want to rethink your life choices [Person using laptop on football field and people jump on top]
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