Which words in the sentence are the prepositional phrase?
guests arrived, and i heard the sound of laughter.
a. and i heard
b. of laughter
c. guests arrived
d. the sound

thick as the foliage of the waving wood; the figurative language that is used here is referring to a battle. there are two mountains that are facing opposite of each other, and they have armies better stick like a forest.

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.

for the comment!

answer: common sense was the pamphlet that thomas paine used to convince reluctant americans to abandon the goal of reconciling with britain and to accept that independence was the only option to preserve their liberty.