English Skills with Readings 8th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 5

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. We had to wait half an hour even though we had reserved a table.
b. Our appetizer and main course arrived at the same time.
c. The busboy ignored our requests for more water.
d. The wrong desserts were served to us.