Supporting sentence

Support Sentence 1 Support Sentence 2. Support Sentence 3. 

Among the following eight sentences are two topics sentences. The other sentences are supporting sentences. Circle the two topic sentences. Then write the numbers of the supporting sentences that go with each topic sentence. 

Sentences 4 and 6 are the two topic sentences because both make an assertion about a general subject. The supporting sentences for topic sentence 4, Not all police duties are dangerous, are sentences 2,5, and 7. The supporting sentences for topic sentence 6, Tenants of the luxury apartment building enjoy many amenities, are the remaining sentences 1,3, and 8. 

A SUPPORTING SENTENCE backs up the assertion made in your topic sentence. The paragraph may contain as many supporting sentences as you wish. 

In a DIRECT PARAGRAPH, the first sentence is a topic sentence. The topic sentence is then followed by either supporting sentences or by a limiting sentence. 

In a PIVOTING paragraph the first sentence is a limiting sentence. The limiting sentence is often followed by a supporting sentence, a pivoting sentence, and, finally, the topic sentence. 

Organize the sequence of supporting sentences in some kind... 

A scientific theory T (in conjunction with accepted auxiliary assumptions) deductively entails some empirical sentence e e is, moreover, true (or, rather, accepted as true on the basis of experiment or observation). Does the extent to which this success lends confirmation or support to T depend on whether e describes some state of affairs that was unknown at the time of Ts articulation or instead on whether it describes some already well known state of affairs The methodological issue of whether, roughly speaking, successful prediction counts more for a theory than successful accommodation formed a celebrated part of the debate between William Whewell and John Stuart Mill. The latter, while allowing that successful predictions were well calculated to impress the ignorant vulgar , expressed utter... 

For the following questions, a topic sentence is given. Try choosing the sentence that best develops or supports it. 

For the final two questions, choose the sentence that does not support the... 

Choices b, c, and d give other details that do not directly support the topic sentence. 

Which of the following sentences from the passage best supports the author s point that circulation of the atmosphere is vital to life on Earth ... 

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