Topics and controlling ideas
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence:
The suicide rate in New Zealand is one of the highest in the world, but active intervention could help reduce it significantly.
- The suicide rate in New Zealand
- is one of the highest in the world, but
- active intervention could help reduce it significantly.
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Sorry, the answer is: The suicide rate in New Zealand
- The suicide rate in New Zealand
Identify the controlling idea in the following topic sentence:
Increasing taxes on alcohol purchases could assist in reducing alcohol abuse.
- Increasing taxes on alcohol purchases could assist in reducing
- alcohol abuse.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Increasing taxes on alcohol purchases could assist in reducing.
- Increasing taxes on alcohol purchases could assist in reducing
Identify the controlling idea in the following sentence:
Maintaining a professional image is essential for those who want to succeed in business.
- Maintaining a professional image is essential for those who want to succeed
- in business.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Maintaining a professional image is essential for those who want to succeed.
- Maintaining a professional image is essential for those who want to succeed
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence:
Regular exercise is the best way to maintain good physical health.
- Regular exercise
- is the best way to
- maintain good physical health.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Regular exercise
- Regular exercise
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence:
Increasing taxes on alcohol purchases could assist in reducing alcohol abuse.
- Increasing taxes
- on alcohol purchases
- could assist in reducing
- alcohol abuse.
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Sorry, the right answer is: alcohol abuse.
- alcohol abuse.
Identify the controlling idea in the following topic sentence:
Maintaining a professional image is essential for those who want to succeed in business.
- Maintaining a professional image is essential for those who want to succeed
- in business.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Maintaining a professional image is essential for those who want to succeed.
- Maintaining a professional image is essential for those who want to succeed
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence:
Memory impairment can be one effect of using marijuana.
- Memory impairment
- can be one effect of using
- marijuana.
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Sorry, the right answer is: marijuana.
- marijuana.
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence:
Sexism is still rampant in today’s workplace.
- Sexism
- is still rampant in today’s workplace.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Sexism.
- Sexism
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence.
Raising the legal driving age would decrease traffic accidents.
- Raising the legal driving age
- would decrease
- traffic accidents.
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Sorry, the right answer is: traffic accidents.
- traffic accidents.
Identify the controlling idea in the following topic sentence.
Memory impairment can be one effect of using marijuana.
- Memory impairment can be one effect of using
- marijuana.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Memory impairment can be one effect of using.
- Memory impairment can be one effect of using
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence.
There are many benefits that come from learning a foreign language.
- There are many benefits that come from
- learning a foreign language.
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Sorry, the right answer is: learning a foreign language.
- learning a foreign language.
Identify the controlling idea in the following topic sentence.
Regular exercise is the best way to maintain good physical health.
- Regular exercise
- is the best way to maintain good physical health.
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Sorry, the right answer is: the best way to maintain good physical health.
- is the best way to maintain good physical health.
Identify the controlling idea in the following topic sentence.
Owning a business is the only way to achieve financial success.
- Owning a business is the only way to achieve
- financial success.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Owning a business is the only way to achieve it.
- Owning a business is the only way to achieve
Identify the controlling idea in the following topic sentence.
Raising the legal driving age would decrease traffic accidents.
- Raising the legal driving age would decrease
- traffic accidents.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Raising the legal driving age would decrease it.
- Raising the legal driving age would decrease
Identify the controlling idea in the following topic sentence.
Air pollution is damaging the ozone layer.
- Air pollution
- is damaging the ozone layer.
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Sorry, the right answer is: It is damaging the ozone layer.
- is damaging the ozone layer.
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence.
Owning a business is the only way to achieve financial success.
- Owning a business
- is the only way to achieve
- financial success.
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Sorry, the right answer is: financial success.
- financial success.
Identify the controlling idea in the following topic sentence.
There are many benefits that come from learning a foreign language.
- There are many benefits that come
- from learning
- a foreign language.
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Sorry, the right answer is: There are many benefits that come it.
- There are many benefits that come
Identify the topic in the following topic sentence.
Air pollution is damaging the ozone layer.
- Air pollution
- is damaging the ozone layer.
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Sorry, the right answer is: Air pollution
- Air pollution
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