Which sentence is true about the main idea of a text?
a. main ideas are always directly stated in narrative texts.
b. identifying the main idea can make it difficult to figure out what a text is about. c. the main idea is the primary point of a piece of writing.
d. in a paragraph, the main idea will differ from the topic sentence.

It will be through raising high the prestige of your administration by success in short-range recovery, that you will have the driving force to accomplish long-range reform. on the other hand, even wise and necessary reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate recovery. what is the purpose of the transitional phrase on the other hand in this excerpt? a) it provides a counter-argument to the writer's main ideas. b) it provides a hypothetical situation for the reader to ponder. c) it provides additional evidence in favor of the writer's argument. d) it provides information about laws that are opposed to the writer's argument.