Question

These do not support the main idea of a paragraph. They do not focus on the main idea and may mislead or confuse the reader. They are called ____.

Answer 1

Irrelevant sentences

Step-by-step explanation:

Irrelevant sentences usually don’t fit in and are not directly connected to the main topic of the passage. They usually just distract readers and upset the flow of the passage; therefore, they should be avoided.

To identify them, one needs to figure out what the main topic is in a passage and then identify what sentence is not directly related to it and does not support the main idea.

Answer 2

Irrelevant Sentences

Irrelevant sentences can also be called “off topic” sentences. Off topic sentences are considered irrelevant because sentences within a paragraph (if not the topic sentence, naturally) should serve to develop the topic sentence by manner of explaining, supporting, elaborating, analyzing. Any sentence that does not do this is straying from the purpose of the paragraph and serves to only as a distraction for readers and may indeed mislead and/or confuse them.