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Learner writes a Task 2 body paragraph and receives a report across all five chapters, framed as choices rather than errors.
Preview · progress not saved — Chapter 1 is free
The whole course as five questions about one sentence.
Does the new information land at the end?
Is anything being contrasted — and does that contrast deserve a device, or is it doing fine without one?
A hundred and twenty words, unchecked.
Prompt: some governments are removing parking spaces in city centres to make room for cycle lanes and wider pavements. Is this a good use of urban space?
Write one body paragraph of about 120 words.
Send it unchecked. You will be told which structures appear in it and nothing else.
Keep it — you will revise it two blocks from now.
Do not revise before sending.
Five questions run against a paragraph of the same shape.
1. Order and emphasis. Sentence 2 ends on by the highways department. Is that the new information the paragraph cares about? Better placed: Cycle lanes and wider pavements in their place.
2. Density. Sentence 3 has how many real verbs? Unpacked: Retailers strongly when parking was cut.
3. Voice. In sentence 2, is the passive doing one of its three jobs? Which job?
4. Agency. Across sentences 3 and 4, how many human actors appear?
5. Stance. Sentence 4 carries how many hedges? Levelled to match sentence 5: Trade affected.
Your revised paragraph, reported as choices.
Send both versions of the paragraph you wrote two blocks ago — the original, and the version you revised after running the five questions.
This is the only block in the course that looks at all five chapters at once.
Nothing in your paragraph is likely to be wrong. The report is about what each sentence chose to do.
Both, labelled.
Which choice will you think about, and which will you leave to instinct?