How can I write these two groups into one sentence phrases of recognizing general and specific phrases?
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October 16th, 2010
I’m really not sure about these two exercises, can you help me a bit here and give me some good answers? These two problems are mostly based on main ideas about Recognizing General and Specific Phrases with these two exercises I’m dealing with is to read a group of three sentences, then write a phrase that best states the subject or general topic for the sentences. I know how to do it but I find some other exercises pretty hard.So here they are:
1. Scientist think that a more reasonably defined danger level would mean that only 50,000 homes have radon concentrations that pose a danger to occupants.
2.Scientist outside the EPA have concluded that the standards the EPA is using are too stringent.
3.The United States Enviromental Protection Agency (EPA) regards 5 million American homes as having unacceptable radon levels in the air.
General Topic?
Next exercise:
1. They resist accepting a warm pink body as a corpse from which organs can be “harvested”.
2.The Japanese don’t incorporate a mind-body split into their models of themselves; they locate personhood throughout the body rather than in the brain.
3. In Japan the concept of brain death is hotly contested, and organ transplants are rarely performed.
General topic?
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And now, the challenge for us is to explain how to get good answers, without giving them away. :P
Well, just read these sentences, starting with 3 and ending with 1. If you’d read them in a newspaper, and someone would ask what that article was about, what would you tell them?
Maybe that doesn’t help at all.
Even if you are not sure of an answer, you can tell us what you think. If you give us a guess, and explain why you think that might be the answer, we can help you understand if it works or not. That will help you get the thought process to do these yourself in the future.
When I say “we”, I mean the good people of Fluther. This comment was about the most help I can offer here.
Judging from the vocabulary and level of complexity of these sentences, I’d say your teacher has a high degree of confidence in your class’s command of English. To me this means that he or she is sure you know enough to do these exercises yourself.
We’re much more likely to respond to a good try on your part than to actually do your exercises for you.
Don’t be distracted by all the words. Think about the meaning.
It’s quite simple for us—at least those who have responded so far—to see what the “general topic” is in each group of sentences, but we’re not going to say “Here is the general topic for you to copy down on your assignment sheet”. Likewise, we might each have a close approximation of the “specific topic” of each group of sentences, too… and we’re just as unlikely to say “copy this down”.
So as @Jeruba has suggested, why don’t you say what you think the answers are, and why those are the answers, and we can help you to focus your thinking, if that’s required, or suggest alternatives. But no one of us who can easily write down the answer is likely to do that, because it would not be a service to you; it would be a disservice, and we won’t do that.
Look at all the words we’ve written to avoid saying approximately a half-dozen words that would not be helpful.
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