Northeastern Italy. This section takes in the regions of Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto. Three weather stations on the list are located at over 2000 metres (6560 feet) elevation: Paganella and Passo Rolle in the Dolomites and Monte Cimone of the Apennine Mountains.
Topic sentence. In expository writing, a topic sentence is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph. It is usually the first sentence in a paragraph. Also known as a focus sentence, it encapsulates or organizes an entire paragraph. Although topic sentences may appear anywhere in a paragraph, in academic essays they often appear at the beginning.
ToPic SenTenceS and comPrehenSion â¢ Topic sentences can help you with paragraph cohesion. Each paragraph should have one unique main idea that develops a facet of the thesis statement, and that main idea should be unified in one paragraph â not spread throughout the essay.