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Topic sentence
A topic sentence is the most important sentence in a paragraph .It announces the paragraph will be focusing on .It enables the reader to follow the ideas expressed in the paragraph because it links the entire sentence in it. It is in fact a generations as well as summary of the paragraph ,Not all paragraphs in writing will have the topic sentence give direction to most of your paragraph ,otherwise ,you may lose focus .for example ,before you start writing ,ask yourself what you
want to write about in every paragraph ,The answer to the question may well be the topic sentence for every paragraph
You should note that, it is not always that a topic sentence at the topic of your Paragraph as may be misconstrued .It could be anywhere within the paragraph .When placed in middle .The paragraph ,a topic sentence is the beginning and end of the paragraph very effectively and hence ,unifies the paragraph .Placed at the beginning but also summaries the only concludes but also summaries the paragraph ,appropriately as at serves as a clincher.
A topic sentence can be written as a declarative or an interrogative sentence e.g
- My college offers a wide range of courses hence catering, for almost interests of the students
- Need I state that my college offers a wide range of courses hence catering for most interest of the students
Supporting sentence
The topic sentence will normally create expectations in the reader, that the writer will provide details the topic sentence .T he supporting details will usually take the form of facts and statistics, example or anecdotes.
Paragraph coherence
Your paragraph must be cohesive. Cohesive is largely as a result of cohesive devices which enable. The meaning of elements is the proceeding part of the text to be reiterated by elements.
marto answered the question on May 21, 2019 at 07:30
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