First sentence in your paragraph is a topic sentence
Topic sentence- gives the topic, gives the controlling idea (your focus, your take on it, your opinion, what you want to say)
Topic: Vancouver
Controlling idea: narrows down the topic to something specific
Vancouver is nice. XXX
I like Vancouver. XXX
Topic sentence:
Vancouver has a wide selection of great, inexpensive restaurants.
Must-see special places for tourists
Capilano Park -Capilano Suspension Bridge
Gastown -Steam Clock
Stanley Park - Seawall
Topic sentence:
For any visitor to Vancouver, there are three must-see tourist spots that you should visit.
Topic: Capilano Suspension Bridge
great outdoor
great view
actors who wear costumes
treetop adventure
one of the biggest suspension bridges in the world
good photos
family picnic
Topic Sentence: If you are looking for a place to spend a day in the great outdoors with your kids, there is no better place in Vancouver to go than Capilano Suspension Bridge.
More interesting than:
Capilano Suspension Bridge is a special place.
A topic sentence is the advertisement for the paragraph. It makes the reader want to keep reading.
FANCIER
Are you looking for a place to spend a day in the great outdoors with your kids? There is no better place in Vancouver for a family to go than Capilano Suspension Bridge.
Grabber: Are you looking for a place to spend a day in the great outdoors with your kids?
A grabber gets the reader's attention.
Several different of grabbers that you can choose:
General to specific - a funnel
Fact
or statistic - numbers
Anecdote - short personal story
Historical -
Question? -
Adage,
idiom, expression -
Famous
quotation from famous person -
Justin Beiber said, "Capilano Suspension bridge is my favourite place to be carried by my bodyguards."
Saying in English "A family that plays together, stays together."
TS:
Alcohol is harmful to your health.
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