Question

Judy Blume's career as an American writer spans four decades and includes many literary awards. She is most famous for her novels geared toward pre-teens. One notable example is Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing. However, Blume also has had success writing for an adult audience. Three of her novels for adults reached the New York Times best-seller list. In a 2008 interview Blume remarked, "I have so many stories left to tell!" By that time she had written nearly 30 novels. Judy Blume an exceptionally talented and productive American author. Explain whether the main idea is explicit or implicit in this paragraph.

Answer 1

Explicit

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Answer 2

The main idea in this paragraph is implicit.

Step-by-step explanation:

Implicit Main Idea is not clearly stated in the paragraph. It is only suggested or inferred by supporting details present in the paragraph. In simple words a paragraph with an implicit main idea does not have any topic sentence.

Explicit Main Idea Paragraphs with explicit main idea have a topic sentence i.e a clearly stated main idea at the beginning, middle or end of the paragraph.

In this paragraph there is no topic sentence. There is no sentence with the main idea in it. We have to make inferences and suggestions to find and write the main idea/topic of the "Judy Blume an exceptionally talented and productive American author" paragraph .