Question

Read the paragraph below. Identify the topic sentence and explain what the main idea is in your own words.

Confucius is an important Chinese historical figure who adopted and taught a set of morals and life lessons that some people still practice. The morals and life lessons showed how the ruling class of China should behave. Confucius gave up a good-paying government job to teach about what he called “beautiful conduct.” His followers, called disciples, listened to his teachings and wrote them down. These written documents formed a social code, or way that a society should behave. The social code was passed down to each generation of the ruling class. Confucius believed that if those in authority set a good example, those in the lower classes would follow accordingly.

Answer 1

The first sentence is the topic sentence: “Confucius is an important Chinese historical figure who adopted and taught a set of morals and life lessons that some people still practice.”

The main idea in this paragraph is that Confucius was significant because his ideas were written and passed down to the ruling class of Chinese for generations.

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Answer 2

The first sentence is the topic sentence: “Confucius is an important Chinese historical figure who adopted and taught a set of morals and life lessons that some people still practice.”

The main idea in this paragraph is that Confucius was significant because his ideas were written and passed down to the ruling class of Chinese for generations.

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