PLEASE HELP ME OUT! Which supporting detail is most helpful in determining whether the authors purpose is to inform , explain , persuade , or entertain???

Occurrences of major earthquakes are considered unusual, but minor tremors happen frequently. which word is an adjective?

Which of the following  correctly  completes the missing line (line ii) of the outline? a.why gilman advocates “rest cure”b.why gilman hates “rest cure”c.gilman’s opinion of “rest cure”d.gilman’s need to punish the doctor      select the best answer from the choices providedabcd

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)