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What is the purpose of the third paragraph?


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Okay Ct aspiring reader's question five of ten and we'll

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dive in here What is the purpose of the third

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paragraph All right so let's just go down right here

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Third paragraph right There's never a shortage of color during

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the brief growing season You know where this unit is

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running the alpine zone Extreme wind cold line occasional so

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swells and intends all the riling me eleven armored adventurous

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but they cope well enough to brighten the tundra every

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year through a variety of strategies The third paragraph discusses

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the climate challenges that wildflowers face in glacier park It

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lists extreme winds cold nights snow squalls and ultraviolet lights

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That effect filed flowers so it doesn't sound like a

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whole lot of fun for a plant Oh live in

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there Yeah but anyway that's the wildflower So it's see

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the purpose to describe the climate challenges wildflowers must face

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and the loser bowl Well third paragraph does not go

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into detail about how the wildflowers air physically Adapted just

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from five So get rid of a Those details are

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in the next paragraph The paragraph also does not provide

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example of diversity of wild flowers in the park The

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third paragraph simply list the challenges these poor wildflowers face

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So the poor thing's Finally the second paragraph discusses how

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beautiful the wildflowers are and provides examples while the third

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is really about the struggle of wildflowers to survive in

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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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