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Unit 7: Qualifying Claims, Syntax, and Conventions

Claims and Evidence: Reading

Explain how writers qualify claims with limiting words, phrases and clauses, counterarguments, and other perspectives, and what each limit leaves out of the claim.

Topic 7.3 · 14 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Why careful writers limit their claims
  2. 02Where the limits sit: words, phrases and clauses
  3. 03Counterarguments and other perspectives as limits
  4. 04Worked examples
  5. 05Where students lose points
  6. 06On the exam

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