Reading Comprehension #14015

Practice Exercise 8 A

Faulty Thinking

  1. Write “logical thinking” beside logical statements. Write “faulty thinking” beside faulty statements.

Example
I am not going to move my car just because that bossy, loudmouth police officer tells me to do it.

Name Calling,
Ignoring the Question

  1. I saw William standing outside the tattoo parlour on Main Street. He must have a tattoo.
  2. Melissa explained to the judge that it wasn’t really stealing when she took the five hundred dollars from the cash register last month, because she left an I.O.U. note.
  3. Everyone should take a ten percent wage cut because the company president said the company’s profits were ten percent lower than expected.
  4. We should go bungee jumping to celebrate our anniversary because I know two couples who did that.
  5. That lazy, coffee-drinking government employee sits all day. That person wouldn’t know how to do an honest day’s work.
  6. Janet’s softball team won their first home game, and they lost their first away game. They will probably win every home game, and they will probably lose every away game.
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