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How many main ideas does a paragraph have? |
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One |
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Two |
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Three |
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As many main ideas as can fit in a paragraph |
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In writing, a new point requires... |
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an aside |
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a pair of brackets |
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a bullet point |
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a new paragraph |
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The sentences which follow the topic sentence in a paragraph may contain... |
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examples |
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evidence |
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further details |
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All of the above |
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To ensure that paragraphs are well-organised and cohesive, their sentences should include... |
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arrows and other annotations |
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connectives / conjunctions |
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numbers |
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organising words |
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The final sentence in a paragraph should... |
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surprise the reader with a new point |
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repeat the topic sentence exactly |
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lead into the next paragraph |
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All of the above |
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The following sentences are from the same paragraph in George Orwell's essay, 'Notes on Nationalism'. Identify the topic sentence. |
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage [...] which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side |
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All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts |
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The Liberal News Chronicle published, as an example of shocking barbarity, photographs of Russians hanged by the Germans, and then a year or two later published with warm approval almost exactly similar photographs of Germans hanged by the Russians |
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A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency |
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Three of the following sentences are from the same paragraph in George Orwell's essay, 'In Defense of English Cooking'. Identify the sentence which does NOT belong with the others. |
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And it is far better to cook new potatoes in the English way - that is, boiled with mint and then served with a little melted butter or margarine - than to fry them as is done in most countries |
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Then there are the various ways of cooking potatoes that are peculiar to our own country |
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Then there are the various sauces peculiar to England |
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Where else do you see potatoes roasted under the joint, which is far and away the best way of cooking them? |
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The following sentences are from the same paragraph in David Crystal's book, The Story of English in 100 Words. Identify the sentence which concludes the paragraph. |
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For many people, that would be an impossible association of ideas, remembering a time when they were taught English grammar in school, trying to analyze complicated sentences into parts, and learning rules and terms whose purpose was never clear |
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For others, the association would be pointless, for they were never taught any English grammar at all |
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Grammar is glamorous? |
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Glamorous it wasn't |
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