Topic

In linguistics, topic has a number of definitions. Among the most common are In an ordinary English sentence, the subject is normally the same as the topic. For example, the topic is emphasized in italics in the following sentences: Although these sentences mean the same thing, they have different topics. The first sentence is about the dog, while the second is about the little girl. In English it is also possible to use other sentence structures... more
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