topic sentence

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   a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph

   Broadersentence

Questions about topic sentence

What does topic sentence mean?

topic sentence means "a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph".

Is topic sentence a common word?

topic sentence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.