Anne explains her plan for helping the neighborhood children.
You must buy 8 packages because 35 divided by 5 is 7. But there is one left so you need another package. Therefore you need to buy 8 packages
Sentence one is the topic sentence because it tells you what the paragraph is about.
Hi, the answer would be D - direct object. It cannot be the subject, because the subject of the sentence is "the essay". It isn't object of a preposition, as there is no preposition there. It is not a possessive, and given that this adjectival clause is a part of "the mountain", which is a direct object, it must be a direct object as well.
