Summer is a wonderful time to spend at West Beach. It is a beach with light- colored, soft sand. The coastline goes on for a long way and many people enjoy walking along it. Children like to play in the surf and walk along the rocks that are visible at low tide. This is a fun beach for people of all ages.
In this paragraph:
<span>the topic is West Beachthe main idea (what the writer is saying about the topic) is that summer is a wonderful time at West Beach</span>
Here is another example:
<span>The movie Apollo 13 was a blockbuster for the summer of 1995. It is an exciting story about space exploration. In the movie, the astronauts get in trouble while they are trying to return to Earth. People in the audience are on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens. What makes it even more exciting is that it is a true story. </span>
In this paragraph:
<span>the topic is the movie Apollo 13<span>the main idea is in the first sentence: <span>Apollo 13 was a blockbuster for the summer of 1995</span></span></span>
Since her uncle enjoyed her company, she didn't worry about what society might think.
Answer: Option 2.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The author in the passage talks about her attachment to her uncle whose name of James Adam because of the walk that she used to do with her father on almost every Sunday.
But this attachment of the author with her uncle might lead to some of the trouble some questions like she would be mistaken as her uncle's daughter and not her father's daughter. She also thought that this closeness and attachment would lead the society to identify her as an ugly duckling with her imposing parent but she did not care about what the society thought about all this.
The correct answer is D) a split infinitive has a word between "to" and the verb. That is why it is called <em>split</em>, because it is separated.