Answer: The topic sentence is number 1 and the sentence that does not develop the main idea is number 9.
Explanation: The topic sentence of a paragraph is the sentence that expresses the main idea of that paragraph. In the given passage from "Lou Gehrig, An American Hero" by Paul Gallico, the topic sentences is "Lou Gehrig had unusual courage despite serious physical handicaps." The sentences that develop the main idea are those that complement the topic sentence, the one sentence that doesn't apport anything about the main idea is "It rained about three times a week."
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1) a thing on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or a horizontal rod or bar in a birdcage.
2) (of a bird) alight or rest on something.
3) an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins.
4) a linear or square rod.
Those are all the definitions. Whichever one relates to what you're learning.
It's in past tense
had is the past tense form of the verb have or has, therefore the sentence is in past tense.
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Foreign imports means goods from other countries. So “other counties” in the sentence is redundant.
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because I am always right
