What is the function of a topic sentence in a paragraph?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. To state the main idea of the paragraph
- Step 1: The topic sentence introduces the paragraph's central point.
Answer
To state the main idea of the paragraph.
Why not the others: To bring the paragraph to a close with a final remark, To provide a quote only without any further comment and To list unrelated facts that the writer has collected don't fit.
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