Solutions to Chapter 1 Arguments

Highlight the phrase which expresses the conclusion of each of these arguments:

1. 1.
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   It is sunny. So I should take my sunglasses.

2. 2.
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   It must have been sunny. I did wear my sunglasses, after all.

3. 3.
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   No one but you has had their hands in the cookie-jar. And the scene of the crime is littered with cookie-crumbs. You’re the culprit!

4. 4.
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   Miss Scarlett and Professor Plum were in the study at the time of the murder. And Reverend Green had the candlestick in the ballroom, and we know that there is no blood on his hands. Hence Colonel Mustard did it in the kitchen with the lead pipe. Recall, after all, that the gun had not been fired.