Which line or lines in this editorial show faulty reasoning? Save Teenage Driving: A Call to Arms
an editorial by Sophie Behrend
Recently, House Representative Ken Weaver of Washington State proposed a bill (House Bill R-9687b) that would raise the legal driving age to 21.
You heard me right-Congress is considering raising the driving age to 21. If you are like me, such a law would be a catastrophe and would only
mean one thing: the end of life as we know it.
Representative Weaver claims that his bill is motivated by "safety." He argues, "Nearly half of all accidents involve people under the age of 21."
Representative Weaver also claims, "Raising the driving age would mean raising the level of safety on America's roads."
But I would ask Representative Weaver: Do not "nearly half of all accidents involve men, and would not the streets be safer, then, if male
drivers were outlawed? And what about the percentage of accidents that occur on paved roads-should we do away with paved roads too?
Weaver also claims that "a majority of seat belt violations" are the fault of the under-21 crowd. But let me ask you this: Do people under the age
of 21 really wear their seat belts less often than older people, or are they just caught more often? That is, we know the police have their eye on
the teenagers, but are they looking at the adults as well?
But I can hear it now: "If teenagers are all so safe, why do they have such high accident rates?" Here's a possible inexperience. Like
anybody who is inexperienced, the teenage driver must suffer through a legitimate period of self-doubt and skills acquisition. Chances are, if the
driving age were moved to 21, we would see 21-to 24-year-olds causing the largest percentage of safety problems-not because of a maturity
problem, mind you, but just because they would be inexperienced at driving.

to give the reader a sense of the chaos, fear, and havoc taking place

i wonder if it is possible to place reagans testimony and paragragh 18, so we can compare and contract the ideas in the text.

1. the relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent- reference

reference refers to the relationship between mainly pronoun and another unit of grammar- noun phrase or noun.

2. a singular noun naming a collection or group- collective noun.

collective noun refers to the kind of noun which refer to the name of people, thing or anything in collective. for instance bundle of sticks, herein 'bundle' is collective noun.  

3. a modifying clause whose subject and/or verb is implied- elliptical clause

it is a clause in which words are being left out. on the other hand, the missing word is understood due to the logic or pattern of the sentence.  

4. two or more nouns and/or pronouns serving the same grammatical function and followed by a pronoun that references one or all nouns- compound antecedent

compound antecedent refers to which is made up of two or more words which are joined by 'or' or 'and.'

5. an adjective clause introduced by a pronoun- relative clause.

relative clauses are the clauses which begin with the relative pronouns such as when, where, which, that or who. the noun that precedes, relative pronouns identify or define that noun.  

6. the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers- antecedent.

antecedents refers to the phrases, clauses or words which are replaced with one of the third personal pronouns.

it was the fourth thursday of november and cassey headed down to the woods to pick up the mushrooms mother had told her to to complement the turkey the family was going to have as they did every day.

she usually sweapt the floors and went for water, but today that task was asked to her younger sister since matthew, the only boy, had gone to the town with father in order to find cheap fabrics to make clothes.

the shoe business was not being as profitable as before, so they had decided to make clothes to sell in the village.

today there would not be time to play with mary, her neighbour and friend, to play to be still in water, a game that was not only part of the fun in the village, but also very useful if there happened to be an acciddent when she had to cross the shore by boat, as she had to at least twice a week to visit grandma.

bored and uninterested in the task she had been imposed to do, cassey started to pull up the best mushrooms she could see. suddenly, something hard was found by her tender fingers. she couldn't believe her eyes: a gold ring crowned by a diamond appeared between her fragile fingers

before she had time to think what to do, a deep voice spoke at her back.

- i heard your mum asking you to pick up mushrooms for the turkey - said her beloved tom - would you collect mushrooms for me next day?

- yes, sure. are you planning to invite someone important? - cassey asked.

- of course. i'm planning to invite two families, mine and my wife's. will you marry me? - tom asked on his knees.

cassey looked at the ring, then at tom, and she felt the moisture in her eyes. she hugged him, kissed him and in those simple actions the answer of her life was implied.