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Nice Paragraph

A paragraph is a group of sentences bearing upon one subject. Often it begins with a topic sentence that serves as a key to the paragraph. Besides announcing the subject of the passage, the topic sentence should interest the reader. The main body of the paragraph develops this is topic in a logical, emphatic pattern frequently; a concluding sentence stresses the most important idea in the paragraph.

This are paragraphs where you can note how the writers have effectively communicated their thoughts with the help of good paragraph structure. Before I reach Tarawa, however, chance gave me a swift glimpse of what a biggish octopus could do to a man. I was wading at low tide one calm evening on the lip of the reef at the ocean island when a baanaban villager, back from fishing, brought his canoe to land within twenty yards of where I stood.