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01. His essay consisted of three [paragraphs].
02. Your [paragraph] should have a good topic sentence.
03. Make sure you indent at the beginning of each [paragraph].
04. The students took turns reading a [paragraph] aloud to practice their pronunciation.
05. We have to write a three-[paragraph] essay on our opinion of the death penalty.
06. You have too many different ideas here. You should break this into a couple of [paragraphs].
07. Can you write the main idea of the movie in a single [paragraph]?
08. In the [paragraphs] indicated, find the word which matches the definition given below.
09. In line 4, [paragraph] 8, please change $450.00 to read $540.00.
10. Her book really got my interest from the opening [paragraph]!
11. Summarize the main idea of each [paragraph] in your own words.
12. William Strunk once remarked that a sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a [paragraph] no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines, and a machine no unnecessary parts.
13. Your essay should follow the five-[paragraph] structure.
14. Franklin Adams once suggested that having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a [paragraph] that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the [paragraph] at all.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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