Learner breaks a text into paragraphs at topic changes rather than at length intervals, and recognises both the wall and the scatter.
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Eight sentences, two topics, uneven groups.
Eight sentences from one unbroken text covering two topics. Order them so the first five form one paragraph and the last three form the next.
Six judgements. Three of them are about length, and length is never the answer.
Where does a paragraph break belong?
The rule, the wall, and the scatter.
A new paragraph begins when the topic changes.
That is the entire rule and there is no word count anywhere in it.
One topic can take three sentences or nine. Both are correct.
Three stacks of the same crates.
The middle stack is the tidiest and no better sorted than the first.
Six texts. Three need no break.
A. (1) Free museum entry changes who visits. (2) A charge decides who comes rather than who is interested. (3) Removing it makes a visit a default. (4) Charging for special exhibitions is a different question. (5) Those charges fund the exhibitions themselves.
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B. (1) Later school starts raise attendance. (2) Teenage sleep cycles shift later during adolescence. (3) A teenager asleep after midnight cannot reliably wake for eight o'clock. (4) The lesson most often missed is the first one.
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C. (1) Cycle lanes bring new riders onto the road. (2) Someone who will not ride beside lorries will ride behind a kerb. (3) Seville built eighty kilometres in four years. (4) Cycling rose elevenfold. (5) Cycle parking is a separate problem. (6) Theft deters people who have already bought a bicycle.
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D. (1) Rents have outpaced wages for a decade. (2) Wages in the sector have been flat since 2015. (3) That gap has pushed younger workers further out. (4) Their journeys now take an hour longer than their parents' did.
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E. (1) Recycling rules confuse householders. (2) Councils each publish their own list. (3) A householder unsure of a rule guesses. (4) One wrong item rejects the load. (5) Landfill policy is set nationally. (6) Councils have little influence over it.
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F. (1) Remote work cuts office costs. (2) Space is the second largest cost most firms carry. (3) A firm with half its staff at home renews a lease on half the floor. (4) The saving arrives at renewal, not at the announcement.
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A 190-word wall, paragraphed and summarised.
The text:
Charging drivers to enter city centres changes travel behaviour. The charge adds a fixed daily cost to every journey in. A driver weighs that against a train fare, and for marginal journeys the comparison tips. Enough drivers switch to thin the traffic at peak hours. The charge also raises revenue. London's scheme took around £150 million in its first year. That money was committed in advance to the bus network, and bus journey times inside the zone fell within eighteen months. Charges are politically difficult to introduce. Drivers who pay them are visible and organised, while the people who benefit are diffuse. Most schemes that have been proposed since 2003 were abandoned before a vote.
Break it. Then summarise each paragraph in one sentence, with no and.
Do not change any words.
One line per paragraph, no and.
Name the old topic and the new one.