Practice in Supporting a Topic Sentence With Specific Details
Suggested Answers:
The following sentences support the topic sentence with precise descriptive details:
1. It is a Madeira folk guitar, all scuffed and scratched and finger-printed.
4. At the top is a bramble of copper-wound strings, each one hooked through the eye of a silver tuning key.
6. The strings are stretched down a long slim neck.
7. The frets on the neck are tarnished, and the wood has been worn down by years of fingers pressing chords.
11. The body of the Madeira is shaped like an enormous yellow pear, one that has been slightly damaged in shipping.
14. The blond wood has been chipped and gouged to gray, particularly where the pick guard fell off years ago.
The original version of this paragraph, titled "The Blond Guitar," appears in our collection of Model Descriptive Paragraphs.
NEXT:
Organizing the Descriptive Paragraph
The following sentences support the topic sentence with precise descriptive details:
1. It is a Madeira folk guitar, all scuffed and scratched and finger-printed.
4. At the top is a bramble of copper-wound strings, each one hooked through the eye of a silver tuning key.
6. The strings are stretched down a long slim neck.
7. The frets on the neck are tarnished, and the wood has been worn down by years of fingers pressing chords.
11. The body of the Madeira is shaped like an enormous yellow pear, one that has been slightly damaged in shipping.
14. The blond wood has been chipped and gouged to gray, particularly where the pick guard fell off years ago.
The original version of this paragraph, titled "The Blond Guitar," appears in our collection of Model Descriptive Paragraphs.
NEXT:
Organizing the Descriptive Paragraph
Source...