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Example 1.

PRG can be rightfully proud of its bands this year. Several Paul Roos bands attained various sought after awards the past term- Slagyester and Merry Melodies being the most commended. Merry Melodies and Slagyester started the year with a bang when they attained the first and second places respectively at the Music en the Rock internal competition.

Semper, September 2004 No:3

Comment:

This paragraph has a good example of a good topic sentence that comes at the beginning of a pargraph. The bolded sentence( the topic sentence) carries the main idea of the sentence. " What makes PRG proud" This is explained and expanded in the next few sentences. the achievements are laid out

 

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Example 2

Ice age does not just ice up the poles but drops the temperatures everywhere around the world by about ten degrees centigrade. The effects are so dramatic. The world's wildlife gets squeezed into a band near the equator and even here life is hardly comfortable. The vast polar ice packs lock up a lot of the earths's water, disrupting rainfall and turning previously lush tropical areas into drought-stricken deserts.

Adapted From: McRone J in Veit,Gould & Clifford (2001).

Comments:

In this paragraph the topic sentence does not come at the beginning but it is still as much effective. It is the one bolded. Support points about how dramatic the ice age is are stated before and after it.

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