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Sarah has decided to write a speech about her favorite animals, dogs. She narrows her topic to training dogs and decides the purpose of their speech will be “How to train your dog.”

Sarah brainstorms a list of questions about her topic.
1. Who are some famous dog trainers?
2. Are there different styles of training?
3. What are the most important things to teach your dog?
4. Why should you train your dog?
5. How to teach your dog to sit?
6. How to teach your dog to stay?
7. How to teach your dog to lay down?
8. How to teach your dog walk on a leash?
9. How to teach your dog to come?
10. What do you need to start training?

Paying attention to the purpose of her speech, which questions can she eliminate?
a.
1 and 2
b.
3
c.
2 and 4
d.
1-4

User Jhocking
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The answer would be D

User Ilian Iliev
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Answer:

D.

Step-by-step explanation:

Narrowing the topic of the speech is an important aspect of delivering a good speech.

A speaker can narrow his/her speech based on four basic principles. They are purpose, audience, time frame, and, context.

In the given case, Sarah had narrowed her topic of speech to "How to Train your Dog?" From the given brainstorming list of questions of Sarah, the questions that she can eliminate are 1-4 (option D). As the topic suggests the speech should be related to training the dogs. And questions 1-4 are some of the off-topic questions that can consume more time of the speaker and will eliminate the possibility of giving an effective speech.

Questions 6-10 are related to the topic of training the dogs, so Sarah can speak on these questions and eliminate questions 1-4.

So, the correct answer is option D.

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