short essay on contains an irrelevant sentence?
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Irrelevant sentences can detract from the meaning of a passage. This lesson will explain what an irrelevant sentence is and demonstrate ways to identify them in a passage. We will end with a short quiz to test what you have learned.
What Is an Irrelevant Sentence?
Take a brief moment to read the following passage:
The farm is filled with chickens. The chickens are fed grain twice a day. The truck is red. The chickens on the farm lay lots of eggs.
Did anything stand out in the passage? Were you distracted or confused by any of the sentences in the passage? The sentence about the red truck didn't seem to fit, did it? The other sentences were about chickens. The last thing most readers would expect to see in a passage about chickens is a sentence telling us the truck is red. Simply stated, it doesn't fit in and is not related to the topic of the passage.
Irrelevant sentences are those that do not support the main idea of the passage. Again, the red truck sentence did not connect to the main idea of chickens, so it seemed out of place or irrelevant in the example mentioned earlier. Irrelevant sentences distract readers and upset the flow of passages.