What does the following sentence from the beginning of "The Story-Teller" suggest about the aunt and the children?
Most of the aunt's remarks seemed to begin with "Don't," and nearly all of the children's remarks began with "Why?"

Answer : It suggests that the aunt is trying to give the children advice on what not to.

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.

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