Part A. Tell if the following underlined words create a favorable or unfavorable connotation in
the sentences below. |
1. Frustrated and impatient, the woman snapped at the cashier while checking her out. 2.
2. My mother has always been considered to be a penny pincher
3. The girl was smart as a whip
4. My dad is an exquisite chef in the kitchen.
5. _The car salesman was very pushy.
6. The congressman was very cunning in his approach to debate.

1: negative connotation, 2: negative connotation, 3: negative connotation, 4: positive connotation, 5: negative connotation, 6: positive connotaion.

Explanation: I'm not entirely sure because I learned this a while back but I hope it helps. (I'm assuming favorable conotaion is the same as a positive and unfavorable is a negative connotation.)

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.