i need to know what sentences which detract from the unity of the paragraph. and what sentence is the topic sentence. The largest octopus is the Pacific giant, which averages a length of 8 feet and a weight of 51 pounds. The staff at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago recently were treated to a surprising demonstration of octopus intellegence and adaptility. For several weeks the keepers ad been concerned because the octopus was not eating its daily diet of small shellfish. Octopus females do not feed at all while guarding their eggs, and so often die when their young hatch. Was there something wrong with the octopus, they wondered? Was it sick?As it tuned out, there was something wrong, though not with the octopus. During the evenings the octopus would climb out of its topless tank, pull itself across the floor, get into the tank of a starled lobster or crab, eat its prey, and be back in it s tank full, happy, and undetected which its keepers showed up in the morning.|||Come on, this is not a language question. This is homework. Go on and read it twice. It's not that difficult!|||Um have u tried searching the internet for help on this question Plzzz answer mine x http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjFwr3oKiSyKFp4ndnSEObHsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090802102224AAHEvsb|||The sentences which detract from the paragraph are the ones that add unnecessary information or have nothing to add to the paragraph. This paragraph should read: The staff at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago recently were treated to a surprising demonstration of octopus intelligence and adaptability. For several weeks the keepers had been concerned because the octopus was not eating its daily diet of small shellfish. Was there something wrong with the octopus, they wondered? Was it sick? As it turned out, there was something wrong, though not with the octopus. During the evenings the octopus would climb out of its topless tank, pull itself across the floor, get into the tank of a startled lobster or crab, eat its prey, and be back in it's tank full, happy, and undetected when its keepers showed up in the morning. The topic sentence is the sentence that describes the contents of the whole paragraph. In this case, it is the very first sentence: The staff at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago recently were treated to a surprising demonstration of octopus intelligence and adaptability.|||Unity is the quality of sticking to one idea from start to finish, with every sentence contributing to the central purpose and main idea of that paragraph. A topic sentence contains the main idea upon which a paragraph is developed. In a unified paragraph, all of the supporting sentences serve to illustrate, clarify, and/or explain the main idea set forth in the topic sentence. So the topic sentence would be.... "The staff at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago recently were treated to a surprising demonstration of octopus intellegence and adaptility." I would have to say the unity of the paragraph....is.... "The largest octopus is the Pacific giant, which averages a length of 8 feet and a weight of 51 pounds."

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