English Skills 10th Edition by John Langan, Zoe Albright

Exercise 32

Each of the following five paragraphs contains sentences that are off target-sentences that do not support the opening point-and so the paragraphs are not unified. In the interest of paragraph unity, such sentences must be omitted.
Cross out the irrelevant sentences and write the numbers of those sentences in the spaces provided. The number of spaces will tell you the number of irrelevant sentences in each paragraph.
A Kindergarten Failure
1 In kindergarten I experienced the fear of failure that haunts many schoolchildren. 2 My moment of panic occurred on my last day in kindergarten at Charles Foos Public School in Riverside, California. 3 My family lived in California for three years before we moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where my father was a personnel manager for Mutual of Omaha. 4 Our teacher began reading a list of names of all those students who were to line up at the door in order to visit the first-grade classroom. 5 Our teacher was a pleasant-faced woman who had resumed her career after raising her own children. 6 She called off every name but mine, and I was left sitting alone in the class while everyone else left, the teacher included. 7 I sat there in absolute horror. 8 I imagined that I was the first kid in human history who had flunked things like crayons, sandbox, and sliding board. 9 Without getting the teacher's permission, I got up and walked to the bathroom and threw up into a sink. 10 Only when I ran home in tears to my mother did I get an explanation of what had happened. 11 Since I was to go to a parochial school in the fall, I had not been taken with the other children to meet the first-grade teacher at the public school. 12 My moment of terror and shame had been only a misunderstanding.
The numbers of the irrelevant sentences: _____ _____