Write a paragraph of at least 150 words using one of your subtopic ideas from the lesson "expository writing" and the outline you wrote for the lesson "paragraph structure." answer the questions below concerning the first draft of your paragraph. what is the topic sentence? what is the subject of the topic sentence? what is the controlling idea of the topic sentence? which sentences in the paragraph do not support or prove the controlling idea?

Correct the sentence below: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late he was right on time. a: correct as it is b: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late, he was right on time. c: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late; and he was right on time. d: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late: he was right on time.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

Which tense allows for an event that began in the past to carry into the present moment in time