Question

And Effie was right. That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, and the next morning all the papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country. The papers would not call them dragons, because, of course, no one believes in dragons nowadays—and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories. At first there were only a few, but in a week or two the country was simply running alive with dragons of all sizes, and in the air you could sometimes see them as thick as a swarm

What is the main idea of the section? (5 points)


Dragons were all over the country.

Dragons were burning people.

The dragons were the same size.

People did not believe in dragons.

Answer 1

Dragons were all over the country.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The correct answer is A. Dragons were all over the country

Step-by-step explanation:

The main idea of a text or a section of a text is the idea that expresses what the whole text or section is about, this means this idea summarizes the ideas and details developed during the text or section expressing the main thought of it. In this case, the section is composed by narrative details that tell the first appearance of dragons the characters of the story experienced when one of these creatures bitted Towser, the subsequent reports about dragons in papers all over the country and the fact that the number of dragons increased massively and people could see dragons of all sizes all around the country, it is also mentioned people do not call them dragons but "winged lizards because they are mainly skeptical, but all the details aim at showing how dragons were suddenly all over the country by providing details that explain how the number of dragons increased. Thus, the main thought or idea is that dragons were all over the country.