5. a verb phrase consists of
a two main verbs
bone main verb and one or more verbs
c one or more verbs
done or more main verbs and one verb

The answer is: B. one main verb and one or more helping verbs.

A verb phrase represents a syntactic unit which includes at least one verb and its dependents. The necessary condition is that the verb phrase always contains one main verb. It may consist of a main verb plus modal/auxiliary verbs (one or more), but it can also contain a main verb only. In any case, the main verb always comes after the helping verbs.

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.

she doesnt want to fail her mother again

explanation: