. Read the paragraph. (1) Equal funding should be provided for girls’ and boys’ sports. (2) Many girls participate in sports. (3
) Individual sports have more long-term benefits than team sports. (4) Participation in sports benefits girls and boys. (5) Federal law prohibits gender discrimination in school athletics. How would eliminating sentence 3 improve the paragraph? It would make the paragraph more coherent. It would strengthen the topic sentence. It would help unify the paragraph.
In this paragraph, the author argues that funding for girls' and boys' sports should be equal. He gives several reasons for this, such as girls' participation, the benefits that sports bring to members of both genders and the illegality of discrimination. However, sentence 3 does not mention the topic of gender differences in any way. Therefore, by removing it, we would be able to better unify the paragraph.
