Question

Read the passage.

Benjamin Franklin’s Legacy

Benjamin Franklin was a man of vision. He was an inventor who created bifocals, a new kind of eyeglasses that people still wear to see better. Benjamin Franklin was also concerned about public welfare. He established the United States Postal Service and the first city hospital in America. In Philadelphia, he organized the police department, the fire department, the public library, and a university. He also helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Today, millions of people benefit from the ideas that Benjamin Franklin had more than two hundred years ago.

What is the role of the underlined sentence in this paragraph?


It is a statistic that serves as a supporting detail.


It is the topic sentence.


It is a fact that serves as a supporting detail.


It is an example that serves as a supporting detail.

Answer 1

at first mark the sentence which you mean

Answer 2

Hello there,

I cannot find an underlined sentence but the reason as to why sentences are normally underlined is to point out or put more emphasis on a certain point, word or line in a paragraph.

By saying millions of people in the passage there is given a statistic which acts as evidence.

The topic sentence is : THE CONTRIBUTION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLINE TO THE SOCIETY.

Benjamine Frankline helped in the development of America's constitution is a fact that acts as a supporting detail.

Franklin was concerned about social welfare is an example that acts as a supporting detail.