Question

(1) Equal funding should be provided for girls’ and boys’ sports. (2) Many girls participate in sports. (3) Individual sports have more long-term benefits than team sports. (4) Participation in sports benefits girls and boys. (5) Federal law prohibits gender discrimination in school athletics.

How would eliminating sentence 3 improve the paragraph?


It would make the paragraph more coherent.


It would help unify the paragraph.


It would strengthen the topic sentence.

Answer 1

It would help unify the paragraph. Sentence three is not what the paragraph is about. The paragraph is all about equal funding for boys' and girls' sports, but sentence three talks about individual sports.

Answer 2

It would make the paragraph more coherent.

Step-by-step explanation:

Although each sentence is spelled correctly, sentence (3) breaks the paragraph's coherence. Consistency gives logical meaning between sentences, making the reader understand the paragraph further.

Sentences (1), (2), (4) and (5) deal with the importance of girls' equal participation in sports. However, sentence (3) deals with the difference between types of sport - collective and individual, which breaks the logic of the subject: female participation in sport.