Based on the riddle of the rosetta stone, which statement best describes the influence thomas young had on the work of jean-françois champollion?

a: through changes made to some of young’s findings, champollion was able to decipher some of the rosetta stone hieroglyphs.
b: champollion did not base any of his research about the rosetta stone on young’s findings.
c: through additions made to young’s findings, champollion and young were able to decipher the rosetta stone hieroglyphs together.
d: champollion based almost all his own research about the rosetta stone on young’s findings.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

what are the lines. come on!

the answer to this question is unstoppable.

assuming the underlined word is "regnant", the correct answer is b) ruling.