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JohnCSeptember 19, 2023
Who's Claim
I often feel answers like this are misleading. I would have picked B as my correct answer but ruled it out because it did not specify who's general claim it supports. How do I best determine who the answer is talking about in these open-ended answers?
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When an answer choice is vague or general you should try to tie it back to the passage. Here, to say that a statement is used to support a general claim is to say that the statement in question supports some other proposition. Here it supports the proposition that animals have several ways of accomplishing tasks.
However it doesn't really matter which proposition it supports. The answer choice is just saying that it supports a general claim: if we can show that the statement in question does indeed support a general claim, then b is correct regardless of whose claim it supports.
JohnCSeptember 25, 2023
Thank you, of all the question types the open ended ones trip me up the most.
