part of paragraph

1. PART OF
PARAGRAPH
RIZKI NURFIDA PAMBAYUN, M.Pd

2. The Topic Sentence
A topic sentence is a complete sentence of at least subject and verb: generally with
complement as well.
Part of topic sentence
1. topic/ subject
2. Controlling idea
Example: Bali is well known for its many tourist attraction.
topic controlling idea
Controlling idea has function to control the idea discusses in all supporting sentences.

3. Kinds of Topic Sentence
Reid and Lindstorm (1985:48) divide kids of a topic sentence into:
1. A statement of opinion
2. A statement of intent
Topic sentence of statement of opinion tells the writer’s judgment of topic involving his/her
personal feeling or belief that is usually expressed by adjectives such as interesting, terrifying,
fun, etc.
Ex: Surabaya is a new metropolis with interesting places to visit.
Topic sentence of statement of intent inform the writer’s objective judgment of a topic where the
topic will be objectively explain in the paragraph.
Ex: Making lemon tea has several steps to follow.

4. Supporting sentence of a paragraph
Supporting sentences are a set of related sentences developing a topic of a
paragraph by giving details to prove, illustrate, explain, clarify, argue, or describe the
truth of the specific point stated as controlling idea in a topic sentence.
Kind of detail in supporting sentences are grouped into four classification:
1. Facts
2. Physical description due to the sense: sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste
3. Examples
4. Personal experience
Transition signal:
A transition is used to tie supporting sentences and avoid jumping idea.
A transition can be in a form of word, a phrase, a clause or a sentence.

5. Concluding Sentence
A concluding sentence is a sentence that ends the development of supporting sentences in a paragraph
smoothly and gives readers a clear visual rendering about the paragraph’s content.
The end-of-paragraph signal
1. In conclusion
2. To sum up
3. Therefore
4. Finally
5. In short
6. In summary
7. As a result
8. To summarize
9. Indeed
10. To end