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Unlock the Power of Paragraph Writing: Tips and Tricks for S1 Students
Contrôle final session d’automne rattrapage 2023-2024
Write a well-structured paragraph on ONE of the following topics:
- Tell us about an experience that helped you understand that parents or other people were right.
- Describe a peaceful place that you have visited.
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Chapter 1: The sentence
| University Hassan II Mohammedia Faculty of letters Department of English | English studies Writing Paragraphs Kesbi |
I) Sentences
You use groups of words to tell your thoughts or ideas many times every day. Some groups of words state a complete idea. Other groups of words may state part of an idea. But they do not give you a complete idea.
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- Read these groups of words.
| The scientists. | The scientists watch the screen. |
| A rocket | A rocket leaves earth. |
| A sentence is a group of words that states a complete idea |
- Read each group of words. Write sentence if the group of words is a sentence. Write not a sentence if the group of words is not a sentence.
- The space station spins towards Mars.
- Some space engineers.
- The Chinese invented the first rockets.
- A tower near the rocket.
- Astronauts went to the spaceship in an elevator.
II) Types of sentences
| A declarative sentence is a sentence that makes a statement or tells something. We travelled to California for our vacation. |
| An interrogative sentence is a sentence that asks something. Have you ever been there? |
| An exclamatory sentence is a sentence that shows strong feeling. What a wonderful time we had! |
| An imperative sentence is a sentence that tells someone to do something. Describe your vacation to me. |
Write D for a declarative sentence, Int for an interrogative sentence, Imp for an imperative sentence and E for an exclamatory sentence.
1) What did you see in California?
2) I saw three movie stars.
3) How excited I was!
4) Tell me their names.
5) How beautiful it looked!
6) Did you talk to them?
III) Capitalising and punctuating sentences
| Use a capital letter to begin the first word of every sentence.Use a period (.) at the end of a declarative or an imperative sentence.Use a question mark (?) at the end of an interrogative sentence.Use an exclamation mark (!) at the end of an exclamatory sentence. |
Write each sentence on the line following it. Use a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence. Put the correct punctuation mark at the end.
| why are you standing therehow impatient you areclose the doorwhy is it openthe mail will be here soon | 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. |
Imagine you are watching a boat race. On the blank lines write about it.
- (Declarative) ………………………………………..
- (Imperative) …………………………………………
- (Interrogative) ……………………………………..
- (Exclamatory) ………………………………….
IV) Subject and predicate parts
| The subject part of a sentence names whom or what the sentence is about. My friends swam at the beach. |
| The predicate part of a sentence tells what action the subject part does. My friends swam at the beach. |
Show the subject part and the predicate part of the following sentences.
| Sentence | Subject part | Predicate part |
| 1. Children played in the sand. | ||
| 2. Many people swam. | ||
| 3. A woman gathered seashells. | ||
| 4. Explorers landed on the moon. |
Imagine you are at the beach. Complete each sentence below with a subject part or a predicate part.
- ……………………………………………… shines in the sky.
- A gentle wind …………………………………………………..
- Several birds ……………………………………………………
- ……………………………………………… build a sandcastle.
………………………………………buries his feet in the sand
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