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  1. Most paragraphs in an essay have a three-part structure--introduction, body, and conclusion. You can see this structure in paragraphs whether they are narrating, describing, comparing, contrasting, or analyzing information. Each part of the paragraph plays an important role in communicating your meaning to your reader.

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  2. example of how a paragraph is arranged: Supporting details can be facts, statistics, examples, anecdotes, quotations, definitions, reasons, and/or comparisons between two or more things. To help you build a great paragraph, insert your own words into the paragraph that is missing words below.

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  3. In this crazy, mixed-up world of ours, transitions glue our ideas and our essays together. This handout will introduce you to some useful transitional expressions and help you employ them effectively. The function and importance of transitions.

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  4. A mixed-construction sentence contains parts that do not fit together because of grammatical structure or meaning. These sentence errors occur when writers begin a statement in one way, or one direction, and then unintentionally change grammatical paths.

  5. paragraphs, and how to completely and clearly express your ideas. What is a paragraph? Paragraphs are the building blocks of papers. Many students define paragraphs in terms of length: a paragraph is a group of at least five sentences, a paragraph is half a page long, etc.

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  6. Parallel structure requires sentences that contain lists, or predicates which have multiple parts, to maintain the introduced structure of the words, phrases, and clauses, without mixing them. Oftentimes, these words, phrases, or clauses are linked with coordinating conjunctions (“and,” or “or”).

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  8. • We are going to discuss three types of sentence structure. • What are they? SIMPLE SENTENCES COMPOUND SENTENCES . COMPLEX SENTENCES