Supporting sentences are there to provide examples to the topic sentence so the reader has something to go off of rather than just a bunch of facts.
A concluding paragraph can help to give the reader a closing so they know the material is coming to an end and it helps the reader sum up and recollect back on what they just read
a works cited page is there purely to give credit to the people that you have learned from so that the teacher or professor knows that you are not just pulling things from thin air, and to help ensure that the material that you presented is actually yours.
paraphrasing things can be risky because you are not actually using your own ideas and thoughts you are just taking what someone has said and rewording it while summarizing things is concluding what you have just read and telling the reader what you understood about the material.
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When you say that phrase, you are saying that you found a fact from a reliable source, such as a website, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.
A gerund phrase is the phrase that has a gerund, which is a noun derived from a verb in its base form plus -ing. The gerund phrase can also include other objects to complement it. In this sentence, the correct choice that identifies the gerund phrase is "making the class laugh constantly" because it is the only option that actually contains a gerund: making.
It would be repetition. The repetition is at the end. ("the people")
