On the patio, in the backyard, ants are carting off the sugar that Marissa spilled while she was flavoring her iced tea.

thate very interesting

Remove comma between patio and in

Explanation:

i just took the quiz

because i have already answered your question several times, answering it again would be superfluous.

by elena

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.