Learner uses a nominalised package to open a sentence, satisfying the given-new chain and the packaging skill at the same time.
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Nine parts, three sentences. The package lands at the front.
Assemble a three-sentence chain. The package belongs at the front of sentence two, and sentence three uses a different kind of join.
Six pairs. Both versions are grammatical; only one links.
The council closed three libraries. Which second sentence links back?
Two rules meeting, what happens at the end, and when to stop.
Old information opens a sentence. New information ends it.
A package is old information by definition — it names what you just said.
The council closed three libraries. The closures provoked protests.
So the package opens the sentence. The two rules give the same answer.
Eight second sentences. Three are already in the right place.
The council closed three libraries. Protests across the borough followed the closures. →
Emissions fell sharply after 2015. Analysts were surprised by this decline. →
The borough has argued about libraries for a decade. The closure of three branches was announced on Tuesday. →
The government refused to release the report. Three committees criticised the refusal. →
Tuition fees doubled in 2012. Poorer applicants were deterred by this rise. →
Nobody expected the factory to survive the winter. The closure came in February. →
The scheme was cancelled last month. Four hundred jobs were lost through the cancellation. →
The city had debated the metro extension for years. Approval finally arrived in May. →
Three sentences, one package, and a second join of a different kind.
Topic: a university raising its entry requirements.
Sentence 1: state what happened. Sentence 2: open with a noun phrase packaging sentence 1. Sentence 3: join differently — a pronoun, plain repetition, or a linking word.
Three packages in a row is the thing to avoid.
One per line.
Old information opens a sentence. A package is old. Connect them.