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What is the purpose of the third paragraph?
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- 00:03
Okay Ct aspiring reader's question five of ten and we'll
- 00:07
dive in here What is the purpose of the third
- 00:10
paragraph All right so let's just go down right here
- 00:17
Third paragraph right There's never a shortage of color during
- 00:19
the brief growing season You know where this unit is
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- 00:21
running the alpine zone Extreme wind cold line occasional so
- 00:23
swells and intends all the riling me eleven armored adventurous
- 00:26
but they cope well enough to brighten the tundra every
- 00:28
year through a variety of strategies The third paragraph discusses
- 00:31
the climate challenges that wildflowers face in glacier park It
- 00:36
lists extreme winds cold nights snow squalls and ultraviolet lights
- 00:41
That effect filed flowers so it doesn't sound like a
- 00:44
whole lot of fun for a plant Oh live in
- 00:48
there Yeah but anyway that's the wildflower So it's see
- 00:50
the purpose to describe the climate challenges wildflowers must face
- 00:55
and the loser bowl Well third paragraph does not go
- 00:57
into detail about how the wildflowers air physically Adapted just
- 01:00
from five So get rid of a Those details are
- 01:02
in the next paragraph The paragraph also does not provide
- 01:05
example of diversity of wild flowers in the park The
- 01:08
third paragraph simply list the challenges these poor wildflowers face
- 01:12
So the poor thing's Finally the second paragraph discusses how
- 01:15
beautiful the wildflowers are and provides examples while the third
- 01:19
is really about the struggle of wildflowers to survive in
- 01:21
the harsh out plain climate self No earlier claim is 00:01:25.302 --> [endTime] being supported here That's it It's c were known
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