[1] Keeping my mind on my writing is not easy when I stay at my grandmother's ocean-side cottage. [2] Just about the time that I am going along pretty well, I glance out the window and see two huge bald eagles swooping and tumbling in a spectacular aerial display. [3] Naturally, I have to leave my desk and rush to the doorway to watch the performance as long as it lasts. [4] Then, as if a conspiracy were trying to keep me from working, two otters poke their shiny heads out of the water and hang there motionless. [5] They watch to see what I am doing. [6] As soon as I return to my desk, seagulls wheel into my window view and screech as they search for scraps of food. [7] Within minutes, this confusion of sounds stirs my aging St. Bernard out of a deep sleep, and he hauls his massive, lumbering body over to be petted. [8] Mickey, my cat, can't stand to see any partiality, so he is soon pacing back and forth across my ankles. [9] As I wiggle my bare toes to tease Mickey, I realize that my legs have become stiff. [10] I remember that I have not had my daily ride. [11] So, I slip on my sandals, step out the door, spring onto my bike, and pedal off down the beach. [12] Meanwhile, the composition in my typewriter sits and grows colder. Does the paragraph support the topic sentence? That is, do all of the following sentences help develop the idea of the topic sentence?

Actually, the whole paragraph develops the topic sentence, but I've picked 5 details:
1) I glance ... and see two huge bald eagles swooping and tumbling in a spectacular aerial display
2) ... seagulls wheel into my window view and screech as they search for scraps of food
3) ... this confusion of sounds stirs my aging St. Bernard... and he hauls his massive, lumbering body over to be petted
4)... my cat... is soon pacing back and forth across my ankles
5) I remember that I have not had my daily ride.

5jdmja 5jdmja · Answer 2 · 2018-09-24T16:24:36+02:00

Sentence one would be your answer.

Explanation: If you look at sentence one this is what it says; "[1] Keeping my mind on my writing is not easy when I stay at my grandmother's ocean-side cottage." Now a topic sentence is supposed to have supporting sentences. So you need to ask yourself; "Does the rest of the paragraph follow what the topic sentence is saying?". Yes it does. The rest of the paragraph list all the ways that he/she is distracted at their grandmother's ocean -side cottage.

Hope this helped!:)