What is the purpose of the following passage? As early as 1944, a book
described playing a game called base ball. A
bat with a flat end was used by a batter who
tried to hit a ball thrown underhanded by a
pitcher. A catcher stood behind the batter. If
the batter hit the ball, he ran to a base and
back again to score a point. These bases
were posts, not bags."
to persuade readers that baseball is the
best game ever played,
to describe the early stages of the game of
baseball
to entertain by telling about an early
baseball
game
to inform the reader about the rules of
baseball

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.