Learner states the central topic of a paragraph in one sentence without using "and", and identifies paragraphs where this cannot be done.
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Six sentences, two topics, no words changed.
Six sentences, currently one paragraph with two topics. Order them so the first four form one paragraph and the last two form the start of another.
Six paragraphs. For one of them, no offered summary works.
Which summary fits this paragraph?
Free public transport removes the cost advantage of driving. A commuter who now pays four pounds a day finds that comparison reversed once the fare is nothing. In Tallinn, free since 2013, car journeys into the centre fell while the population grew. The effect is largest for people whose commute already cost them most.
The test, why the same subject is not the same topic, and what does not count.
Summarise your paragraph in one sentence.
If you cannot do it without and, the paragraph has two topics. It wants to be two.
That is the whole test, and it takes ten seconds.
Twelve paragraphs sorted by how many topics they carry.
Sort each item into the correct category
Eight paragraphs. Three cannot be summarised in one.
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A paragraph and its own one-sentence summary.
Prompt: Should employers be required to allow remote work?
Write one body paragraph.
Then summarise it in one sentence of twelve words or fewer, with no and in it.
If you cannot, go back and split the paragraph before you submit.
One body paragraph.
Twelve words or fewer, no and.
Name your second topic, if you have one.