Rewrite the following paragraph, adding adjectives to describe the three things you’d like to buy. when i have enough money, there are three things i’d like to buy. first, i need to buy a car. next, i want to buy a television. if i have enough money left over, i’m going to buy a lamp for my living room. write a short paragraph with at least three sentences. use at least four adjectives to describe someone you know or would like to know.

When I have enough money, there are three things I’d like to buy. First, I need to buy a big blue car. Next, I want to buy a tall television. If I have enough money left over, I’m going to buy a long, bright lamp for my living room.

I would like to know someone tall, with a great sense of humor and big fluffy brown hair. Someone who likes to read and talks really loud. Someone with blue eyes to match there energetic personality.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

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