ShmoopTube

00:04

Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by dinosaurs [boy reading a book on dinosaurs]

00:07

Raaar! there every little kids obsession at east until junior high. All right

00:13

check out the following passage [mumbles]

00:22

what's the main purpose of this passage

00:25

and here are the potential answers [mumbling]

00:32

okay well we're hunting for the main purpose of the passage which will [man with a rifle hunting in the forest]

00:35

hopefully be easier than hunting for Dino fossils alright so let's take a

00:39

look at option A well it's indisputably true velociraptors were actually [velociratpor in the field and a larger velociraptor appears]

00:44

much smaller than in movies like Jurassic Park they also didn't possess

00:48

super advanced problem-solving skills spoiler alert too late okay option B not

00:55

quite what we're looking for either while the passage does state that

00:59

scientists have found over a dozen Raptor skeleton there's nothing that [Raptor skeletons on a conveyor belt]

01:03

says that this somehow makes them the best known dinos in the world scientists

01:08

have found many other skeletons all right moving on to option D 75 million years

01:14

certainly is a long time but it's just a supporting detail it's not the point of

01:18

the paragraph we mean the fact that grandpa's old isn't people only thing to [A grandpa sitting down laughing]

01:23

say about him. Which leaves us with options C this paragraph is giving us

01:28

a collection of basic facts about velociraptors so C it is, bonus fact

01:33

your parents threw away all your Dino toys the day you turn 10 seriously ask [boy playing with dinosaur figures]

01:38

em. We have now.

Full Transcript