The main idea is usually stated in the topic sentence.
a. true
b. false

The correct answer is A. True

Explanation:

In texts, the main idea is the key point or message or the idea that is explained by all the details the author includes. In a paragraph, this idea is expressed by the topic sentence which is usually the first sentence and encloses the ideas of the paragraph explicitly stating what the paragraph is about (main idea). Similarly, in texts with multiple paragraphs, the topic sentence in each paragraph supports and expresses the main idea of the text. Therefore, it is true the main idea is usually stated in the topic sentence because this type of sentence tells the reader what a paragraph or text is about.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

your answer is b. tense. hope this .