14. Which of these sentence fragments might help improve a story?
Across the cracked fields.
A devastating drought.
When the rain falls.
"Praying for rain.”

i think the beatles

explanation: they are talked about more.

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.