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You can start a topic sentence any way you like. A topic sentence makes a statement (or asks a question) the rest of the paragraph explains or gives examples of what the topic sentence has said.

For example the topic sentence is:

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean.

We would expect this paragraph to give us some more information about New Zealand, maybe about it's size, how many islands, the islands names etc.

So the paragraph could be:

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean. It comprises of two main islands the South Island and the North Island plus numerous small islands. The land area of New Zealand is 268,021 square kilometres. New Zealand's closest neighbour is Australia.

So your topic sentence can start anyway you want, it all depends on what your paragraph is going to be about.

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