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Writing Reference

The writing reference section provides guidance to support you in improving your writing skills
and successfully completing the writing tasks in each unit. It starts with general guidelines to
follow in your writing. Pages 54-61 provide specific guidelines for the main writing task in each
unit as well as a model answer for each writing task.

Writing sentences.

Well-constructed sentences will make your writing easier to read and understand.
Writing good sentences is the key to being a good writer.

Sentence structure

n A basic sentence in English requires:

a subject
n The subject is the person, thing or idea that the sentence is about.
n The subject usually comes before the verb and does the action.

an object
n The object receives the action.
n It usually comes after the verb.

a verb
n The verb tells you what the subject is or does.

Example: The cat ate the mouse.

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agreement
n The verb must agree with the subject in number (singular or plural).
n If the subject is singular, the verb must be singular.
n If the subject is plural, the verb must be plural.

Example: I is here. The verb and subject do not agree.
I am here. The verb and subject agree.

Writing interesting sentences

n It is also important to make sure your sentences are interesting to read.
n Writing that contains mostly short, simple sentences can be uninteresting.
n Writing that contains mostly long, complex sentences is usually difficult to read.
n Good writers use a variety of sentence types.

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