A general statement made at the beginning of a paragraph or section, serving as the topic sentence, may then be explained by breaking the general idea up into details and particulars.
Have you from that made out a general statementof the several accounts containing the daily purchases, the daily sales, and the daily balances?
There is great difficulty in making any short or general statement of the difference between great and ignoble minds in their behaviour to the 'public.
In order to understand what such a general statement means, the reader may need to think of a concrete case.
When the topic sentence is a general statement, we naturally seek to supply specific instances, and the writer will most readily make his meaning clear by furnishing such illustrations.
Exposition treats of general subjects, and the topic statement of a paragraph is, therefore, a general statement.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general statement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
