Question

Identify the topic sentence
We all hate a messy room, but what’s worse is cleaning it. The following is the perfect system for cleaning your room. First, keep all items that do not have a designated place at the center of the room. Dispose at least five things that you have not used within a year. Now find a location for each of the items you have placed in the center of the room. For the remaining items, try to squeeze them under your bed or into the back of the closet. See, that wasn’t so hard!

A) We all hate a messy room, but what’s worse is cleaning it.
B) The following is the perfect system for cleaning your room.
C) See, that wasn’t so hard!
D) For those remaining items, try to squeeze them under your bed or into the back of your closet.

Answer 1

Hint: A topic sentence is the essence of the paragraph or the article or any text, which gives us an idea of what the topic is about. It is the focal point of the sentence which helps us prepare our mind about what the rest of what is to be read.

Complete answer:
Option A – This sentence tells us about how messy rooms are commonly hated by everybody and cleaning it is even more despised. The remaining paragraph goes on to talk about how cleaning needs to be done, but this sentence did not give us an idea of how cleaning is done. Hence this is not the right option.
Option B – This sentence is followed by steps of cleaning a room. It has given a quick essence of the rest of the paragraph; hence this is the right option.
Option C – This sentence gives us a sense of relief and how cleaning is not as hard as it looks, but it does not give any idea of the paragraph; hence this is not the right option.
Option D – This is one of the steps of how to clean the room and is not an idea of how it is done; hence this is not the right option.

Hence the correct answer is option (B).

Notes:Although chances are that topical sentences are the first-most sentences in a paragraph, sometimes they may be the second or the third; the given paragraph is the best example to understand this.