Main Idea

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Main idea in a passage is supported by:

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details

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Main idea of a passage?

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What the passage is mostly about.

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Fun activities at the beach include swimming, snorkeling, beach volleyball, shell collecting, and sunbathing.

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Many fun things to do at the beach.

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Fun activities at the beach include swimming, snorkeling, beach volleyball, shell collecting, and sunbathing.

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Many fun things to do at the beach.

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Main idea can be implied or stated.

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True

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Sharks can lose up to 30,000 teeth in their lifetime and continually grow new ones to replace them.

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Sharks lose many teeth over their lifetime.

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Main idea:

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The author enjoys spending time with her family.

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Benjamin Franklin invented many things in the late 1700s, including the lightning rod, Franklin stove, and bifocals.

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Benjamin Franklin was a great inventor.

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Soccer, known as football in some countries, is played in over 200 countries by 250 million people. It has been part of the Olympics since 1900.

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Soccer is a worldwide sport.

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Invention of television: Philo Farnsworth, 21, demonstrated the first moving picture in 1927, marking the start of electronic TV.

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The invention of television