Learner writes a five-sentence paragraph in which every sentence's opening is licensed by the previous sentence's ending, and can point at each join.
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Five sentences ordered by their joins alone.
Five sentences from one paragraph. Order them by their joins — each one opens with something the sentence before it ended on.
Six paragraphs. One has no break.
The charge raised £150m. That revenue went to buses. Air quality is measured hourly. Where does the chain break?
Three joins, why naming beats pointing, and where no join belongs.
Repeat the noun. Use a pronoun. Or name the whole previous idea with a noun.
Emissions fell sharply. That fall continued until 2020.
The third one is the strongest, and the one Band 6 writers almost never use.
Five links, one of them open.
Nothing is broken. The two halves simply are not holding each other.
Eight openings. Two of them need none.
Emissions fell sharply after 2015. was steepest in cities with low-emission zones.
The council cut services and raised charges. provoked protests within a week.
Rents have risen faster than wages for a decade. has pushed younger workers out of the centre.
This is the first sentence of a new paragraph about schools. Class sizes have grown in every region.
The scheme was extended twice in five years. were approved without a vote.
Three cities have copied the charge. report similar falls in traffic.
The paragraph turns here from causes to remedies. The remedies are less obvious than the causes.
The report was published in May and ignored until November. was never explained.
One paragraph, and name every join in it.
Topic: a policy in your city that worked, or failed.
Five sentences.
Each one after the first opens with material the sentence before it established.
Then list your four joins — the words at each end.
Five sentences.
One line per join.
Name your weakest join and how to strengthen it.