Question

Read the paragraph. (1) Courtney is one of the many teens who help others. (2) Last year, 60 percent of the nation’s teens volunteered 2.3 billion hours to a social or political cause. (3) Of those hours, 1.8 billion were given to national organizations. (4) These numbers show that teenagers care about others. Which sentence in this paragraph from “Youths Offer a Helping Hand” by Tameeka Mithem is the topic sentence? A) sentence 1 B) sentence 4 C) sentence 3 D) sentence 2

Answer 1

I believe the correct answer would be "Sentence 4"

Answer 2

Answer: B) sentence 4

Sentence 4 summarizes the main idea of the text, which is that teenagers care about others. Therefore, this is the topic sentence. Sentence 1 provides evidence by introducing the case of Courtney. Sentences 2 and 3 provide even more factual support in the form of statistics that contribute to proving the paragraph's main claim.