Question 8(multiple choice worth 5 points) (lc) read the following sentence and answer the question that follows. the ancient greeks developed the concept of participatory democracy, but they also practiced slavery, denied political rights to women, and which phrase best completes the sentence above? wars of conquest waged wars of conquest were waging wars of conquest were a people who waged wars of conquest

waged wars of conquest.

Explanation:

This question addresses the topic of parallelism. Parallelism refers to the practice of similar phrases or clauses within a sentence having the same grammatical structure. This is an important thing to keep in mind if we want our texts to be easy to understand and process. In this example, the series of phrases presented should all be in the simple past in order to ensure parallelism:

...practiced slavery...

...denied political rights to women...

...waged wars of conquest.

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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.