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topic sentence

The sentence within a paragraph or discourse that states the main thought, often placed at the beginning.

topic sentence

(Linguistics / Grammar) a sentence in a paragraph that expresses the main idea or point of the whole paragraph

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topic sentence - a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph

sentence - a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"

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topic sentence

n (US Gram) → Einleitungssatz m

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