Details Practice 16 *
| See if you can figure out a way to put the following details into three groups. Write A in front of the details that go with one group, B in front of the details that go with a second group, and C in front of the details that go with a third group. Cross out the four sentences that do not relate to the topic sentence. |
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Topic sentence: My brother Shawn caused our parents lots of headaches when he was a teenager. |
| ______ | 1/ In constant trouble at school |
| ______ | 2/ While playing a joke on his lab partner, nearly blew up the chemistry lab |
| ______ | 3/ Girlfriend was eight years older than he and had been married twice |
| ______ | 4/ Girlfriend had a very sweet four year old son |
| ______ | 5/ Parents worried about people Shawn spent his time with |
| ______ | 6/ Several signs that he was using drugs |
| ______ | 7/ Failed so many courses that he had to go to summer school to graduate |
| ______ | 8/ Was suspended twice for getting into fights between classes |
| ______ | 9/ Our father taught math at the high school we attended |
| ______ | 10/ His money just disappeared, and he never had anything to show for it |
| ______ | 11/ His best pal had been arrested for armed robbery |
| ______ | 12/ Hung around with older kids who had dropped out of school |
| ______ | 13/ Until he was in eighth grade, he had always been on the honor roll |
| ______ | 14/ No one was allowed in his room, which he kept locked whenever he was away from home |
| ______ | 15/ Has managed to turn his life around now that he's in college |
| * The material in this practice is taken from Sentence Skills, Form A, 7th ed. by John Langan (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003). |
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