Recognizing the topic sentences.

Within the general subject, each paragraph in the passage is about a more specific topic or a narrower subject. Try to work out the titles for the four paragraphs here.

Paragraph A ______________________________________________________.

Paragraph B ______________________________________________________.

Paragraph C ______________________________________________________.

Paragraph D ______________________________________________________.

Answers:

Paragraph A  A Simple Family in England—Around the Year 1200

Paragraph B  The Traditional Japanese Family in the 1900s 

Paragraph C  The Twentieth Century Community Where I Grew Up 

Paragraph D  Difficulties of Typical Family Changes in Today’s World