The most important sentence in a paragraph is the ____. This sentence ____ everything else that goes into your paragraph. All the other sentences ____ the topic sentence by providing ____. The topic sentence should state the ____ and the ____. In order to write an effective topic sentence, you should avoid making the following mistakes: writing a sentence that is too ____ or too ____, or one that ____ a controlling idea. You will always need to support your topic sentences with ____. In addition to a clear topic sentence and adequate support, a good paragraph must also have ____ and ____. A paragraph is unified if all the supporting details ____ to the main topic and ____ the controlling idea. In a coherent paragraph, ____ are used to link one idea to the next. Three of the most basic ways to organise information in a paragraph are by ____ order, ____ order and order of ____.

Writing paragraphs - conclusion

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