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Supporting sentences

Here is a video by Mark Roberts from YouTube.

Video source: Smrt English
Video length: 2m:25s

This video explains that a paragraph has:
  • a topic sentence
  • Supporting sentences. Mark focuses on different supporting sentences.
Try experimenting with all of the sentence types Mark identifies. You might include a number of them in your paragraphs.
Are there any other supporting sentence types you can think of? Return to index