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Explanation:
Thomas Edison created many inventions, but his favorite was the phonograph. While working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone, Edison figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders. In 1877, he created a machine with two needles: one for recording and one for playback.
1.)One paragraph focuses on one subject and the next focuses on a different one that's related to the first one.
2.) Sentences have structures like "____ is like this, while/but/however ____ is like that".
3.) Sentences say something to the effect of "Both ____ are like this".
I think that a few signal words "are", "although", "also", and "but".
The type of question that the prompt presents is a. open-ended.
An open-ended question <u>is a question that is answered using more than one word,</u> unlike closed-ended questions.<u> Most open-ended questions encourage an answer that includes the subject's opinion about a specific topic</u>. In other words, they encourage the act of reflecting. It is the case of the questions in the prompt, which asks the readers to develop a position about the topic based on their own experience and observation.