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Monday, 11 July 2011

Topic sentences...30 June 2011



Topic Sentence Essentials
Complete Sentence
        There are several things you need to
        remember when  writing topic sentences. 
        The first is that topic  sentences are 
        always complete sentences.

Topic Sentence Essentials

       A topic sentence contains the topic of the paragraph and a controlling idea.  The controlling idea limits the topic to something very specific.


Supporting Sentences

Definition
     Every paragraph has sentences that relate to the ideas in the topic sentence.  These sentences are called supporting sentences. Look at the supporting sentences on the next page to see how the writer provided more information on the subject in the topic sentence
http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/partopic.html

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