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Practice
The topic sentence appears in different locations in the following four paragraphs.
Find each topic sentence.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Finding the Main Idea of the Paragraph.
The main idea is a general idea. It states the central point of the paragraph. Usually, the main idea appears in a sentence called the topic sentence. The rest of the paragraph provides supporting details for the main idea. These can be arguments, examples statistics and numbers, etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 22
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Finding the Main Idea of the Paragraph.
The main idea is a general idea. It states the central point of the paragraph. Usually, the main idea appears in a sentence called the topic sentence. The rest of the paragraph provides supporting details for the main idea. These can be arguments, examples statistics and numbers, etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 26
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Finding the Main Idea of the Paragraph.
The main idea is a general idea. It states the central point of the paragraph. Usually, the main idea appears in a sentence called the topic sentence. The rest of the paragraph provides supporting details for the main idea. These can be arguments, examples statistics and numbers, etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 35
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Finding the Main Idea of the Paragraph.
The main idea is a general idea. It states the central point of the paragraph. Usually, the main idea appears in a sentence called the topic sentence. The rest of the paragraph provides supporting details for the main idea. These can be arguments, examples statistics and numbers, etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 50
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"An apple pie"
A kind of a commonly used structure, which has two nouns one before and one after "of".
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 2
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"A piece of cake"
A commonly used noun stucture which might be expanded. It has two nouns one before "of" and the other after.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 3
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"Green Lights" - A Technique to Locate the Noun
Where do we stop looking for a noun? When there is "stopper" -full stop, comma, preposition or verb.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 8
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