Learner orders the sentences inside a paragraph so each one is licensed by the one before, and finds the sentence that arrived too early.
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Five sentences. Each must be licensed by what precedes it.
Order these five sentences so that nothing arrives before what it needs.
Six paragraphs. One is in the right order.
In Bogotá, car journeys fell by a fifth. Charging drivers makes the cost of each journey visible, which changes the decision. What is wrong?
The licence test, the commonest fault, and thought order.
A sentence is licensed if everything it relies on has already been said.
A sentence is too early if it uses a term, a case or a claim the reader does not have yet.
✗ This process explains the closures. (which process?)
Twelve sentences shown with what came before them.
Sort each item into the correct category
Eight paragraphs. Three need no move.
(1) In Bogotá, journeys fell by a fifth. (2) Charging makes each trip's cost visible at the moment of deciding. →
(1) Applications halved. (2) The fee cap was removed in 2012. (3) Poorer households were the first to drop out. →
(1) Hollowing out means residents are priced out and their services close. (2) Historic centres have hollowed out since the 1990s. (3) Venice is the clearest case. →
(1) This process explains the closures. (2) Residents are priced out. (3) The schools and shops that served them follow. →
(1) Fares take a tenth of minimum-wage pay. (2) At two or three zones the share rises. (3) Fares are a barrier to work for the lowest-paid. →
(1) The same is true of the outer boroughs. (2) In the centre, the scheme cut journeys sharply. →
(1) A four-day week keeps output steady. (2) Workers compress the same tasks into fewer, more focused days. (3) Sick leave also falls. →
(1) Neither objection applies here. (2) Critics raise cost and fairness. (3) Both are answered by how the revenue is spent. →
Every sentence uses only what the reader already has.
Topic: why a city might restrict cars in its centre.
Five sentences. Somewhere in them, include a mechanism and an example of it working.
The test: no sentence may rely on something you say later.
One paragraph.
Take your third sentence. What does it assume?