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Learner writes a Task 2 body paragraph containing three different complex structures, all controlled, and receives a report by structure across the whole course.
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Four structures, four checks, one judgement.
subordination because · although
while · whereas
relative who · which · that
whose · where
conditional if · unless
provided that
participle -ing · -ed · reduced
A hundred words, three structures, unchecked.
Prompt: some argue that governments should pay for university education. Others say students should bear the cost themselves.
Write one body paragraph of about 100 words containing three different complex structures.
Send it unchecked. You will be told which structures you used and nothing else.
Keep it — you will correct it two blocks from now.
Three different complex structures.
Ninety seconds on a paragraph of the same shape.
CHECK 1 — one link word per join. Which sentence has two? Sentence . Repaired: university education is expensive, the cost of not funding it falls on the whole economy.
CHECK 2 — verb distance. In sentence 2, how far is the main verb are from the start? words. Repaired: A country's own graduates the ones who stay.
CHECK 3 — the word after the comma. In sentence 3, who compared the systems? Repaired: Having compared the two systems, concluded that free tuition widens access.
CHECK 4 — the last clause against the if-half. In sentence 4, charged opens which frame? Repaired: …applications from poorer households within a decade.
Sentence 5. Any of the four checks find anything?
Your corrected paragraph, reported across all four structures.
Now send both versions of the paragraph you wrote two blocks ago — the original, and the version you corrected with your four checks.
This is the only block in the course that reports on all four structures at once.
It is last for that reason. At any earlier point it would have told you that everything was broken.
Both, labelled.
And which one will you leave behind?