Section ll: The questions below refer to the article below. (6 points) A buildin

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Section ll: The questions below refer to the article below. (6 points) A building that housed sensitive government information burned down last week. Investigators think that an arsonist caused the fire because the fire originated from several different parts of the building. In addition firefighters at the scene noted that all of the fire hydrants in the area around the building had been damaged and did not work. Finally, the fire spread very rapidly, indicating that an accelerant was used. Accelerants like gasoline, kerosene, and alcohol increase the fuel load, making a fire burn much faster than it normally would. a. In the second sentence of this article something is known indirectly. What is the flag term that signals this indirectness? What is the piece of information that is known indirectly? b. What does the indirectness tell you about the "because" in the second sentence of the passage? c. The last sentence of the passage (Accelerants like gasoline, kerosene, and alcohol increase the fuel load, making the fire burn much faster than it normally would.") is padding. What kind of padding is this? d. Using your answers to (a) - (c) as a guide, construct a structured BBP of the article. Label the secondary points as (e), (s), (q) or (r)

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a, Arsonist. It is presumed that the fire is caused delibrately by some person.

b. This indirectness shows that investigators are not willing to go deep believe that the fire may have caused due to some internal lack of safety hazards. They do want to claim that the fire could have been caused to due to the fault of the building constructions.

c. the writer wanted to elaborate the accelarants used, hence he padded the sentence with examples. It is composition padding.

d. The building had an old construction

e. fire safety was not taken into consideration.

f. Building contained fire catching materials.

g. Investigators did not look into the construction history of the building

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