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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.
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.
This is Lesson 3 of the Paraphrase Writing e-course. In this lesson, you will rewrite sentences by changing nouns into verbs.
University essays and government reports often use a writing style called ‘nominalization.’ This means some verbs are changed into nouns.
This is Lesson 2 of the Paraphrase Writing e-course.
In this lesson, you will rewrite sentences by changing them into the passive form.
Most sentences are written in active form. So, if you can rewrite sentences in a passive form you will learn a good paraphrasing skill.