Q21 - If you use a wood stove to heat your home

by **ohthatpatrick** Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:20 am

Question Type:
ID the Conclusion

Stimulus Breakdown:
Conclusion: If you're gonna use a wood stove, you should use a pellet one, not a regular one.
Evidence: Pellet stoves are better for the environment than regular stoves: the pellet stoves use recycled wood, whereas regular ones cut down trees for their wood.

Answer Anticipation:
We just need a paraphrase of the first sentence.

Correct Answer:
E

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) Premise

(B) Subsidiary conclusion

(C) Premise

(D) Premise

(E) YES, this matches the meaning of the first sentence.

Takeaway/Pattern: Whenever you read an ID the Conclusion argument, you initially remind yourself, "The conclusion is almost always EARLIER than the evidence." You gotta be ready to hear that first author opinion. With each claim, ask yourself, "Was THAT the author's opinion?" If so, it's probably the conclusion. The rest of the paragraph at that point becomes, "Here's why you should believe me ...".

The LAST thing you'd expect on an ID the Conclusion is that you'd find the conclusion on the last sentence with a classic conclusion trigger like "So / Therefore / Thus / Hence". (It does happen now and then, but in under 10% of them)

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