Some English students have a hard time expressing complex ideas in short sentences. They don’t know how to summarize or synthesize information. This short lesson helps students overcome that barrier by teaching them how to construct a hypothesis with an easy to learn sentence pattern.
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Lesson 6: Paraphase by Using Definitions
This is Lesson 6 of the Paraphrase Writing e-course, the final activity in this e-course. In this lesson, you will paraphrase sentences by removing words and replacing them with their definitions. Here is an example.
- The judge’s verdict surprised everyone in the courtroom.
- The judge’s final decision surprised everyone in the courtroom.
Lesson 5: Paraphase by Combining Sentences (2)
This is Lesson 5 of the Paraphrase Writing e-course. In Lesson 4, you learned how to combine sentences by using conjunctions.
This is another combining sentence exercise you can use to write academic essays or English essay tests. Now you will combine sentences by using two kinds of clauses: relative clauses and appositives.
Lesson 4: Paraphase by Combining Sentences (1)
ESL students can improve the quality of writing by learning to write two kinds of sentences well: compound and complex sentences.
In this lesson, students learn to write with an exercise called sentence combining.