¹Most of the people of our country are farmers, workers, and day laborers who live be- low the poverty line. ²But the price of essential commodities is soaring higher and higher. ³It has now become impossible for them to make both ends meet . ⁴It has severely hit the day laborers, the lower and middle-class families, and the salaried class too. ⁵The prices of rice, vegetables, clothes, cooking oil, gas, medicine, and other essential commodities are also in- creasing by leaps and bounds. ⁶In most cases, hoarding and black marketing are responsible for such situation. ⁷All these have made the life of the common man miserable. The government should set up more and more fair price distribu- tion channels for selling essential commodities, The Consumers' Forum should also be more active to check such unreasonable hikes.

22. The bold sentences depict the
a. Topic sentence
b. Supporting Sentence
C. Concluding Sentence
d. Transitional Expressions

23. What are the supporting sentences of the given paragraph?
a. 1,2,3,4,5
b. 3,4,5,6,7
C. 1,2,7,8,9
d. 5,6,7,8,9
24. What is the main idea of the above-mentioned paragraph?
a. Poverty
b. Inflation
C. Inequality
d. Employment​