Answer:
<em>When an author makes a </em><u><em>claim</em></u><em>, (s)he is stating something which might or might not be true. It must be argued. Example: Mary wrote, "I am the best musician in the school."</em>
Explanation:
A claim is an assertion an author or speaker makes to tell something is true but without providing evidence or proof about it, so other people might not believe it because it may be false.
The sentence that sounds the best when you read it out loud is:
C. Summer vacation came as a relief to the student, who was tired of studying and writing research papers.
If you read all the sentences out loud they all sound weird except for this one.
Amy arrived at the empty lot just before sundown, when the ________Crepuscular____________ animals began to emerge from the forest to feed in the grassy field.
Crepuscular is derived from twilight (a latin word ) and is used to describe animals that are active just when the sun is rising or setting that is at dawn or dusk. Animals who are crepuscular are believed to have evolved like this majorly to prevent predators, or to prevent the scorching sun's heat on them. Some of them are The ungulates (mule ,deer) , jack rabbits, bison, rattlesnakes, beavers, humming birds etc.
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Entertaining someone means to capture their attention.
When the bachelor says at the end <em>"I kept them quiet for ten minutes, which was more than you were able to do"</em> he is implying that no matter what she thought of his story and how much "better" she thought she could've done it, his was able to capture the attention of these kids and that is the matter of the issue because, for a story, entertaining is more important than proper form
