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Supporting Sentences:

To explain your topic sentence, you need to provide facts and reasons.

These sentences are supporting sentences. These fill up the body of

your paragraph. Sufficient supporting sentences can prove your point

of view and can convince the readers to agree with your point of view.

Each supporting sentence should relate to the topic sentence.

You can start the

supporting

sentences with
TOPIC SENTENCE
transition words

such as: SUPPORTING SENTENCE#1
Supporting

Sentence # 1 • in addition to, SUPPORTING SENTENCE#2

Supporting Supporting Supporting • firstly…, SUPPORTING SENTENCE#3

Sentence # 4 Sentence # 2 • secondly…,
Sentence # 3
• lastly…, SUPPORTING SENTENCE#4
Now, write supporting SUPPORTING SENTENCE#5

sentences based on the given Supporting • finally…,

clues. Sentence # 5 • next, etc. CLOSING SENTENCE