English Skills with Readings 8th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 84

The following activity will give you practice in writing an accurate point, or topic sentence-one that is neither too broad nor too narrow for the supporting material in a paragraph. Sometimes you will construct your topic sentence after you have decided which details you want to discuss. An added value of this activity is that it shows you how to write a topic sentence that will exactly match the details you have developed.
Topic sentence: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
a. Only about thirty people came to the dance, instead of the expected two hundred.
b. The band arrived late and spent an hour setting up.
c. There were at least three males at the dance to every female.
d. An hour after the dance started, it ended because of a power failure.