Which statement is directed at readers who disagree with the author's ideas about nature? s who disagree with the author's ideas about nature? a. indeed i am a "butterfly chaser, googly-eyed bleeding heart and wild conservative." b. with the renewal of plant life will come the insects, the birds, the lizards and snakes, the mammals. c. the wilderness will again belong to god, the people and the wild things that call it home. d. the thickets teemed with songbirds: vireos, warblers, mockingbirds and thrushes.

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.

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