Lesson: Critical/Logical Reasoning - 05t01

Identifying Evidence And Conclusion, continued

Read the paragraph and note what function each sentence serves on your scratch paper. Click Continue to compare your answers to ours.

Clearly, our softball team is going to win the state championship. After all we went through the entire season undefeated. And, all the games will be played on our home field.

Countinue

The first sentence is the conclusion of the argument. It's a prediction the author is making.

The second sentence is evidence for the author's conclusion/prediction that his softball team will win the championship.

The third sentence is an additional piece of evidence for the author's conclusion/prediction.

How did you do? On the next page we'll show you another way to identify the evidence and conclusion of an argument.