Question

In a well-written paragraph, the explanatory sentences are appropriate responses to the _______ sentence of the paragraph.

A. leading
B. topic
C. concluding
D. theoretical

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. Topic sentence. These are sentences found at the beginning of paragraphs and are basically what you're going to be talking in the paragraph. Explanatory sentences are used to support the topic sentence and topic sentences have to rely on previous paragraphs to make it coherent and cohesive.