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AukI Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

How to find a topic sentence, controlling idea and concluding sentence from a paragraph?

How to find a topic sentence, controlling idea and concluding sentence from a paragraph?
  

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Hi, How to find a topic sentence, controlling idea and concluding sentence from a paragraph? The topic sentence tells the reader what you are going to talk about in your paragraph. 'The controlling idea' sounds like the same thing as the topic.

  • Hi, How to find a topic sentence, controlling idea and concluding sentence from a paragraph?
  • The topic sentence tells the reader what you are going to talk about in your paragraph.
  • 'The controlling idea' sounds like the same thing as the topic.
  • The concluding sentence is the last one in the paragraph.
  • Can you show us a specific paragraph that you would like to analyse in this way?
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Hi,

How to find a topic sentence, controlling idea and concluding sentence from a paragraph?

The topic sentence tells the reader what you are going to talk about in your paragraph. 'The controlling idea' sounds like the same thing as the topic.

The concluding sentence is
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Hi Clive,

How you doing ? I hope you are doing fine. Thank you for your kindness.

I really want to learn how to find those , is there any good tutorial available ? Tommorow is my exam and as it truns out that I am very dull at finding those...

Can you also suggest me how to the get best title for a paragraph ?
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Thank you very much.
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Example, lets look at this sentence.

A. Convenience foods are easy to prepare.

The topic is: Convenience foods
The controlling idea is: easy to prepare
The controlling idea makes a specific comment about the topic.
Also, the controlling idea indicate what the rest of the paragraph will say about the topic.
The controlling idea limits or controls the topic to a sp
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Explain the controlling idea in the sentence: Different music styles have dominated the world over the years

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