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Learner reads their own paragraph and finds the complex sentence that failed, without being told which one it is.
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Six paragraphs. In one of them, nothing is broken.
(1) The charge was introduced in 2019. (2) Although the council promised a review, but nothing was published. (3) Traffic fell by a fifth. Which sentence?
Do not read for meaning. Run four mechanical checks instead.
You wrote it, so it means what you intended when you read it back.
Reading for sense will always tell you the paragraph is fine.
Read for the four mechanical checks instead.
One paragraph. Record what each check finds before repairing.
CHECK 1 — count the link words. Which sentence has two connectors doing one job? Sentence . Repaired: the council promised a review, nothing was published.
CHECK 2 — verb distance. In sentence 3, the main verb is angered. How many words from the start? Repaired: The committee met that month and ignored the report. were angered.
CHECK 3 — opener against the subject. In sentence 2, who examined the evidence? What sits after the comma? Repaired: Having examined the evidence, took the decision in March.
CHECK 4 — conditional tail against the if-half. In sentence 4, invested opens which frame? So the main half needs , not will fall.
Four paragraphs. One is clean and saying so is correct.
A. (1) Rents have risen faster than wages. (2) Because many households cannot absorb the difference, so they have left the city. (3) The eastern boroughs lost most.
Broken sentence: · Rewritten:
B. (1) Faced with falling enrolment, the university capped its fees. (2) Applications recovered within a year. (3) Two departments reopened.
Broken sentence: · Rewritten:
C. (1) The scheme began in 2019. (2) Having been extended twice, the council reported a fifth fewer journeys. (3) Four cities have copied it.
Broken sentence: · Rewritten:
D. (1) Tourism funds preservation. (2) If visitor numbers were capped, the revenue will fall sharply. (3) Residents would return.
Broken sentence: · Rewritten:
Write it, run the four checks, report what each found.
Prompt: should city centres charge drivers to enter?
Box 1: a four-sentence paragraph using at least two complex structures. Box 2: run the four checks and report what each one found. Write clean where a check found nothing.
Send both. You are being marked on the accuracy of your own report, not only on the paragraph.
At least two complex structures.
Four lines.
Which one did you run fastest, and what might it have missed?