DIRECTIONS: Read the claim below. Then, answer the questions that follow. Claim: High school students should not have to do chores.
1. What are two reasons to support the claim?

2. What evidence can you cite to support the claim?

3. What are two possible counterclaims?

4. What arguments would you make to refute the counterclaims you wrote above?

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

a.) it provides a clue to solve the mystery.

it is an infinitive phrase with a subject.