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Supporting sentences are called "supporting" because they "support," or explain, the idea expressed in the topic sentence. Of course, paragraphs in English often have more than two supporting ideas.
Alicia Botsford
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∙ 9y agoA supporting sentence is a sentence in a paragraph that gives support and evidence to the claim made in the topic sentence. Most of the sentences in a paragraph are supporting sentences.
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