Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen. I decided to put his entire machine shop in our basement, but there were two problems... One, his shop wouldn't fit in our basement, and two, there was no way the lathe, weighing fifteen hundred pounds, and the milling machine, weighing two thousand pounds, could be carried into the basement. I solved this problem by hiring a contractor to dig a large hole, break open a wall of the basement, enclose the addition with concrete, and add a roof that could be used for building an outside deck to the house. I also enlarged my mother's kitchen and pantry. I now had the entire machine shop in our basement. At the time I was making enough money from my electronic devices to pay for all of this. What conclusion can be drawn from the details in this excerpt? A Kamen's family did not appreciate the enlargement of their basement.

B Kamen's mother had complained about the size of her kitchen and pantry.
C Kamen's idea to enlarge the basement benefited both his work and his family.
D Kamen's machine shop still did not fit into the newly enlarged basement.

C Kamen's idea to enlarge the basement benefited both his work and his family.

Explanation: Kamen managed to fit all of his machines in the basement after he made it larger, and he also made the pantry and kitchen bigger to benefit his mom.

A Kamen's family did not appreciate the enlargement of their basement.

There is no mention of Kamen's family's opinion in the text.

B Kamen's mother had complained about the size of her kitchen and pantry.

Kamen's mother did not show her opinion in the text.

D Kamen's machine shop still did not fit into the newly enlarged basement.

His machine definitely fit into the basment, as seen here "I now had the entire machine shop in our basement."

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answer: to inform

explanation: the red death is an exciting passage, but also in some ways scary, so it is not to amuse. the red death is far in the past, so it is not to warn.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.