Learner opens a paragraph with a reference that reaches back clearly across the break, and knows that a bare pronoun rarely survives one.
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Six sentences ordered so the break can be crossed.
Six sentences forming two paragraphs. Order them so the second paragraph opens with a reference the reader can find.
Six openings. Three of them reach.
Previous paragraph ended on a housing shortage. New paragraph opens: This shortage has worsened. Findable?
Why the gap costs, the naming repair, and when to start fresh.
The reader closes one topic and opens another.
A bare it arriving after that has to reach back across a gap they have already stepped over.
It usually does not make it.
Ten openings. Five reach, one of them by not reaching at all.
Sort each item into the correct category
Eight openings. Two need no link.
P1 ends: …and the shortage of affordable housing has grown every year since. P2 opens: has three separate causes.
P1 ends: …which led the council to close three branch libraries. P2 opens: were reversed within a year.
P1 answered the first part of the task. P2 begins the second part. P2 opens:
P1 ends: …and the charge now raises £150 million a year. P2 opens: is spent entirely on buses.
P1 ends: …so turnout among under-25s has halved since 2001. P2 opens: worries officials more than the overall figure.
P1 answered the causes. P2 begins the solutions. P2 opens:
P1 ends: …and the ban was extended to the whole city in March. P2 opens: has been challenged in court.
P1 ends: …leaving both the fees and the grants unchanged. P2 opens: has been criticised from both sides.
A named reference across a break, and what it names.
Topic: a change where you live, and what followed from it.
Paragraph 1: three sentences, ending on something specific. Paragraph 2: opens by naming that thing.
Then say what your opening reference points at.
Leave a blank line between them.
Name both ends.
Say whether you are pointing at a sentence or a paragraph.