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1. My eighteenth birthday was a day I will never forget.
2. On their eighteenth birthdays, Americans receive two important
rights/responsibilities: they can vote, and they can sign legal contracts.
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In
most occupatiOns, women are still unequal
to
men in three areas:
salary, power, and status.
4. LiVing in a dormitory offers several advantages to a newly arrived
international student.
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Photosynthesis
is
the process by which plants manufacture their own
food.
6, TeleviSion game shows are boring for the educated viewer because they
are poorly disguised commercials but more importantly, because they
require such a minimal level of knowledge.
7. Earthquake prediction is still an inexact SCience although seismologists
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learn more each time they monitor a quake
8. A college degree in international business today requires first, a
knowledge of business procedures and second. a knowledge of cultural
differences in business methods.
9. A computer
is
both faster and more accurate than a human.
10. Teenagers demonstrate their independence
in
several ways.
B. Suggest changes to the topic sentence of the model paragraph "Life in Space" on
page 62 to show that one group of problems (physical or psychological) is more
important than the other.
Two Topic Sentence Tips
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Parallelism is explained in
Chapter 10. pages
166-169.
Here are two tips to help you write topic sentences for logical division and order of
importance paragraphs:
I. Use a colon
1:1
in front of the names of the groups. (For more information about
the use of colons, see Appendix A, page 251.)
In one shocking week of 1997. the world lost
two
remarkable women who.
although they lived very different lives. shared a common compassion for the
sick and injured: Princess Diana of Britain and Mother Teresa of India.
2..
Use paired (correlative) conjunctions when there are only two groups. Paired
conjunctions are both . .. and . .. ; not only . .. but also . .. ; either . .. or . .. ; neither
.. , nor. ...
Remember that paired (correlative) conjunctions follow the rule of parallelism.
If
you put a noun after the word both, you must put a noun after the word and. If
you use a prepositional phrase after not only, you must use one after but also.
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Chapter 5 Kinds of Logical Order
Here are some examples of logical division topic sentences with these special
conjunctions.
Gold. a precious metal, is prized
not only (or
its
beauty but also for
its
utility.
(prepositional phrases)
To stay healthy. you should
both eat nutritious
food
and
exercise daily.
(verbs)
In my opinion.
neither wealth nor beauty
guarantees happiness.
(nouns)
Most people buying a personal computer for the first time will consider
either a PC or
a
Madntosh.