Name:_______________________________ Date:____________
Class: ______________________________ Score:___________
Read each sentence carefully. Using all the devices and signals to guide you, rearrange the sentences so as to achieve paragraph coherence, Number the sentences consecutively.
1. _______a. Yet, they can be valuable tools for both the teacher and the student.
________ b. Tests are the most dreaded aspect of the academic experience.
________ c. So the next time a test is announced, don‟t frown. Study!
________ d. First of all, tests give the teacher an idea of how effectively the course has been taught.
________ e. Secondly, tests make the student more aware of what has been learned or what should have been learned.
2. ______ a. First, she contacted the members of the committee and set up meeting.
________ b. Everyone got started on their chores with chalk, paper, and paint.
________ c. As soon as the theme of the prom was set, Ann, the head of the social committee , began to organize.
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________ d. At the meeting she assigned various tasks to individual committee members and to subcommittees.
________ e. By the afternoon of the prom, the gym had been transformed into a place of beauty, and Ann sighed with relief.
3. ______ a. Now, you can relax; you‟ve done everything possible to ensure a leisurely trip.
________ b. But before putting anything in the suitcase, check the weather at your destination.
________ c. Careful planning of a vacation can make the trip much more enjoyable.
________ d. Next, tackle the problem of packing by laying out the things you think you‟ll need.
________ e. Once you know where you‟re going, make the necessary reservations and transportation arrangements.
4. ______ a. One difference between folk artists who produce this art and mainstream artists is that folk artists have not usually attended art school or received formal training in art.
________ b. Now that people have become increasingly interested in discovering their roots and exploring their backgrounds, more attention is focused on the traditional forms of folk art found in many sections of this country.
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________ c. Folk art is difficult to define since it encompasses many different forms that have been practiced over centuries.
________ d. Despite the fact that folk artists practice skills learned at home, experts in traditional art forms are taking serious interest in folk art.
5. ______ a. As soon as a new mystery arrives at the library, I check it out.
________ b. I rush home, curl up with a quilt in my favorite chair, and read far into the night.
________ c. After all is said and done, I think I enjoy them so much because I can never figure out the ending.
________ d. I‟m one of those unfortunate people who are addicted to mystery novels.
________ e. Clue after clue appears, and still the solution is always a shock to me.
6. ______ a. Even the television emitted no sound; its screen was as blank as a fish eye.
________ b. Insomia was a terrible thing, he concluded.
________ c. It was three o‟clock in the morning in the quiet living room.
________ d. The silence began to make him uncomfortable, so he looked at his watch.
________ e. He heard no noise, and he had nop idea what was keeping him awake.
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Logical Order
Activity 5 – Arranging of Ideas
Name:______________________________ Date:____________
Class: ______________________________ Score:___________
Pick out from each of the following groups an idea which could be used as main heading and arrange the other ideas as sub heads in their logical order. Observe parallelism in the construction of ideas of equal rank.
1. Expository composition, forms of discourse, narration, argumentative, description.
2. Its picnic facilties, centrally located, the park is much-used recreation center, its well-equipped playgrounds.
3. Steps in a typical group discussion. The question is clarified and finally agreed upon by the group. Question is clarified and finally agreed by the group. Question proposed, usually by the Chairman.
Tentative answers are given. Consensus is reached. A summary approved by the group. One answer gradually prevails.
C.Completeness in Paragraphs
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Activity 6
Name:_______________________________ Date:____________
Class: ______________________________ Score:___________
Devise beginnings and endings for the following topics:
1. A real test for leadership 2. A defense of popular music 3. An interesting character
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Completeness in Paragraphs Activity 7
Name:_______________________________ Date:____________
Class: ______________________________ Score:___________
1. Comment on the following paragraph by writing another paragraph on it.
Be sure to observe completeness, unity, order, and coherence in your paragraph. Underline your topic sentence.
Agora, or money-obsessed, societies produce hollow men. They produce dissatisfied men, because power to buy is as habit forming as
heroin, one is dead before one has enough. They produce guilty men, because too few have too much, and too many are savagely punished for their innocent poverty and ignorance. Somewhere each day the stick-limbed child the too much could have saved dies.
2. Write a paragraph on your impressions as a college students; include the elements of completeness, order, unity, and coherence.
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CHAPTER V