Question

(1) By the end of the first series of Sherlock Holmes stories, the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, had become tired of writing detective stories. (2) So at the end of his second book of Holmes stories, he decided to have the detective die. (3) The book ends with Holmes and his archenemy, Moriarty, plunging to their deaths from a high cliff overlooking a waterfall. (4) After that, hundreds of letters poured in to Conan Doyle, begging him to bring Holmes back. (5) Also, magazines offered him huge sums of money for additional Sherlock Holmes adventures. (6) Finally, after nine years, Conan Doyle wrote a new story in which Holmes reappears and tells Dr. Watson that he did not die after all. (7) Sometimes it is the reader, not the author, who determines how long fictional heroes will live.

Answer 1

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In which sentence does the main idea appear?

(1) By the end of the first series of Sherlock Holmes stories, the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, had become tired of writing detective stories. (2) So, at the end of his second book of Holme's stories, he decided to have the detective die. (3) Hundreds of letters poured in begging him to bring Holmes back. (4) Finally, after nine years, he wrote a new story where Holmes reappears and tells Dr Watson he did not die. (5) Sometimes it is the reader, not the author, who determines how long fictional heroes will live.

Answer:

Sentence 5

Explanation:

The main idea of the text concerns the theme and the main subject to which the text wishes to address. In this sense, the text shown in the question above shows how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was able to backtrack on his decision to write about Sherlock Holmes, because the fans asked, incessantly, for him to continue writing. sentence 5, better expresses the main theme of the paragraph.