Question

1 Good child care centers are clean and​ safe, hire trained​ staff, and have enough staff for the number of children. 2 These are three important considerations for single parents and working couples who need day care for their children. 3 Every day in this​ country, at least ten million children go to day care. 4 Many parents feel guilty that they​ can't stay at home to take care of their children. 5 But good day care is available if parents take the time to investigate.

Which sentence in this introduction would be more effective if the writer used it as an opening​ sentence?
A. sentence​ 4, because it uses guilt to draw readers into the essay
B. sentence​ 5, because it wraps up the ideas in the paragraph
C. sentence​ 2, because it states the number of considerations up front
D. sentence​ 3, because it grabs the​ reader's attention with a startling statistic

Answer 1

The correct answer is sentence 3.

Sentence 3 grabs the reader's attention with a startling fact: ten million kids is a lot of kids! After reading that statistic, the reader is likely to want to continue reading.

Answer 2

D. sentence​ 3, because it grabs the​ reader's attention with a startling statistic.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is the sentence that would best be used as an introduction to this text. When we write the opening sentence of a paragraph, we often want to use a "hook." A hook is a statement that is attractive or interesting and convinces the reader to continue reading. In this case, the interesting fact is the statistic. This statistic grabs the reader's attention, and thus is best employed at the beginning of the paragraph.