tannersclark
tannersclark
04.07.2019 • 
English

Read the following paragraph and select the correct answer. she came to know what heavy housework meant and the odious cares of the kitchen. she washed the dishes, using her dainty fingers and rosy nails on greasy pots and pans. she washed the soiled linen, the shirts and the dishcloths, which she dried upon a line; she carried the slops down to the street every morning and carried up the water, stopping for breath at every landing. and dressed like a woman of the people, she went to the fruiterer, the grocer, the butcher, a basket on her arm, bargaining, meeting with impertinence, defending her miserable money, sou by sou. (from "the necklace," by guy de maupassant) what is the topic sentence of this paragraph? she knew now what meant the duties of the household, the heavy work of the kitchen. her pretty hands soon lost all semblance of the care of bygone days. she washed the soiled linen and dried it in her room. she defended cent by cent her miserable money.

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