2. How will you write a Thesis Statement adding 3 reasons to it?

Thesis Statement Extension with 3 reasons

Thesis Statement: Smoking is harmful.

● We have already discussed ‘Smoking’ is the topic and ‘harmful’ is

the main idea of the thesis statement ‘Smoking is harmful.’
● Let us now learn how to extend the main idea of the thesis
statement, that is extend the main idea ‘harmful’ into 3 reasons.
How can we do that?
● Why is smoking harmful? Find 3 reasons. The answers may be:
● 1. Smoking is harmful because smokers can offend others with
their unpleasant smell.
2. Smoking is harmful because smokers can have lung
cancer.
3. Smoking is harmful because smokers can waste a lot of
money.
● Now your thesis statement has become longer by adding
the 3 reasons to the main idea ‘harmful’. It has turned into
one long sentence. So it looks like this.
● Thesis Statement: Smoking is harmful because smokers can
offend1 others with their unpleasant smell, because smokers can
have lung2 cancer and because smokers can waste a lot3 of
money.
● Therefore, every time you will be given a thesis statement for
writing an Essay with one main idea, you will have to extend that
main idea into 3 reasons.
The End