The course was not very difficult, although I didn’t receive a high grade. (periodic sentence)

He felt that the world had come to an end when he wasn’t chosen for the football team.(periodic sentence)

Jane walked out of his life, bursting into tears as she left the room.

Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentences.Most people like to talk, but few people like to listen. Yet listening well is a rare talent that everyone should treasure. Because they hear more, good listeners tend to know more and be more sensitive to what is going on around them than most people. In addition, good listeners are inclined to accept to tolerate rather than judge and criticize. Therefore,they have fewer enemies than most people. In fact, they are probably the most loved of people...

Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentences.My brother and I went to Lake Kenilworth today, as we usually do on the forth of July, to do a little fishing off the boat of our dad's boss, Mr. Ciatti. Since Mr. Ciatti was out of the town on a business trip, he asked us to use his boat so that someone would be keeping track of it. Excited about the prospect of spending the day on Mr. Ciatti's cabin cruiser, we hopped into our dad's new Old mobile and drove off to pick up our friends Robert and Charles. We were beginning to count our fish already and were making bets about who would catch the biggest. Little did we know that we would not be able to do any fishing that day. When we got to the lake, we discovered that Mr. Ciatti's boat had come unmoored. Though the damage was slight, we had to spend the rest of the day getting it tied up again and repairing the damage.

He failed the vision part of his driver’s test. He did not get his driver’s license that day.

I gave several yanks to the starting cord of the lawn mower. I was angry.(sentence with -ly opener)

I fertilize the grass every spring. I want to make it greener.(sentence with to opener)

Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentences.Japanese New YearNew Year’s Day is special traditional holiday for Japanese. In earlier years, it often lasted two days, and men of the community would make the rounds of different homes to wish everyone a prosperous new year. In my family, it lasts just one day today, and all of the family gather at one of the aunts’ house for a feast that includes all of the Japanese delicacies that we seldom eat during the year. The aunts spend two full days preparing all of the wonderful foods that I’ve loved to eat since I was very little.Following the old traditions, women do all the cooking and serving on New York’s Day and the men eat first. Something everyone looks forward to is the “sashimi,”or raw fish, which also includes octopus and raw oyster, served on “daikon,”shredded Japanese radish, and dipped in hot mustard or horseradish. Two other favorites are “inari”and “makizushi,”two types of sweet-flavored riceballs, the first wrapped in soybean skin, and the second in seaweed and stuffed with vegetables and bits of shrimp. And I can’t forget the delicious “teriaki”chicken, one platter barbecued and the other deboned, deep fried in butter, and cut into bite-sized pieces like Chicken McNuggets.No Japanese feast is complete without vegetables, and on New Year’s Day we eat “nishimi,”a variety of cooked vegetables including Japanese mushrooms and potatoes, carrots, bamboo shoots, string beans, and kelp. We also have “kamabuko,”or fish cakes, and everyone has to eat a few black beans for luck for the new year. Finally, throughout the day the men are served hot “sake,”Japanese rice wine, in tiny cups, and they say “Banzai”each time they gulp it down. The men’s eating room gets noisier and the faces redder as the day progresses.

Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentences.I can’t find a lazier girl than Carol. She is always the last to get up in the morning. Staying awake in bed for a long time, she just lies there rolling from one side to the other, opening her eyes for a while and then closing them. When it is almost time for class, she gets up slowly and never has the time to fold up her quilt. After all, night comes soon and then she doesn’t have to unfold it to slip into. What’s more, she almost never washes her clothes until all the dirty clothes pile up under her bed. When she has no clean clothes to wear, she will pick up a cleaner one from the dirty ones. Then comes the time when she has to face the washing. She just lays the dirty clothes on the floor and sits there staring at them, as if thinking how nice it would be if someone could come for help. As for study, she almost never does her homework! All she does is to sleep away the afternoons or spend her self-study time reading popular novels and listening to pop music. Have you ever seen such a lazy girl before? To tell the truth, I have never seen one as lazy as she is.