Rebuild the Paragraph
Five sentences, each correct in any position.
These five sentences form one paragraph. Every one of them is correct in any position. Put them in the order that keeps the chain unbroken.
Learner opens each sentence with information the previous sentence has already established, so that a paragraph reads as a chain rather than a list.
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Five sentences, each correct in any position.
These five sentences form one paragraph. Every one of them is correct in any position. Put them in the order that keeps the chain unbroken.
Six pairs. Both options are correct in every one.
The city introduced a congestion charge in 2003. Which second sentence follows better?
The chain, what breaks it, and why vary your openings is the wrong rule.
Each sentence opens with something the reader already knows and ends with something new.
The new thing then becomes the next sentence's opening.
Emissions fell sharply after 2015. That fall continued until 2020.
Twelve second sentences. Four start fresh and not all of those are faults.
Sort each item into the correct category
Eight pairs. Three need nothing.
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Three sentences, two joins, and name one of them.
Topic: free public transport.
Write three sentences.
Each sentence after the first must open with something the previous sentence ended on — a repeated noun, a pronoun, or a phrase naming it.
Then point at the join between sentence 1 and 2.
Three sentences.
Name both ends of the join.
Point at the word that links back.