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topic sentencenounA sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.We were to underline the thesis in the first paragraph and put brackets around the topic sentence of each body paragraph....- This logical pattern is deductive and is typically opened by a topic sentence in each paragraph (which are used to separate ideas), followed by supporting statements, helping to develop the main idea and to present related sub-topics.
- Even when I write a scene for a novel, I sometimes subconsciously begin a paragraph with a topic sentence - a perfect metaphor for science, but nearly fatal for art.
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