22) What is the main idea of the passage? 6)
A)
That a republic is too corrupt to work
B) That monarchy s preferable to pure democracy
9)
That a pure democracy is better than a republic
D) That a republic is better than a pure democracy

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.

the pronoun reference replaces a noun, but you have to make sure there's no room for confusion.

in the first sentence "her" could be referring to shely or to the sister. the answer there is "shelly called her sister and told her about the new baby."

in the second sentence "it" could be referring to the roof or the floor. the answer there is "since the roof leaks on the family room floor, we need to repair the roof."

government played the key role in promoting industrialization in russia while individual businesses played a larger role in great britain. or for apex a