Unit-1 Writing Paragraphs-1

The aim of this unit is to help you in a systematic manner to write good paragraphs.

What title would you like to give this paragraph?

Why does the hunter need to know 'the ways of his quarry’ ?

a) Give two examples of how a modern city-dweller comes in contact with animals? b) Are animals always a source of pleasure for him? Which words tell you that sometimes they are not?

Find two verbs meaning more or less the same as 'take pleasure (in)’?

Find an adjective which is equivalent to 'belonging to the earliest stage of development'?

Find equivalents of the nouns a) wonder b) relationship?

Find the topic of the paragraph?

a) What are the points of similarity between the events that took place in ancient and modern times? Give two instances. b) What are the points of difference? Give two instances.

a) Was ancient man less violent than modern man? b) Why is a modern battle more dangerous?

a) What does the phrase 'for that same prize' refer to? b) Give some examples of what you think are 'modest tools of death’ and 'magnificent tools of death'?

The topic sentence of the paragraph below is hidden somewhere within the paragraph. Find it and place it in the correct position?

Is there a topic sentence in the paragraph? Underline it, if it is there. If you don’t find a topic sentence, state the main idea of the paragraph in-your own words?

Identify the major details?

Suggest a title for this paragraph?

a) In which stage of mitosis does the cell have two complete sets of chromosomes? b) How long does it take for mitosis to occur?

Identify the keywords that signal a topic sentence?

Look beyond the first sentence to identify the topic sentence?

What is the most important reason that man has been able to range so widely across the earth?

Identify the keywords that signal a topic sentence?

Find the opposites of: a)barrenness, b)terrestrial, c)very large?

What are the four major steps involved in the process of mitosis?

What is the topic of the passage?

What are the three characteristics that the monkey shares with man?

Find the topic of the paragraph?

Identify the major details?

Look beyond the first sentence to identify the topic sentence?

What are the two circumstances that govern the relationship of living things in the sea?

a) Under what circumstances would the Atlantic be packed with codfish within six years? b) How does nature prevent this from happening?

Suggest a title for this paragraph?

In the following exercise we have given you a topic sentence, the title, as well as some notes which might help you develop a paragraph. As you develop your paragraph, use only those points which will support the topic sentence and leave out the rest. Your paragraph should not be more than 100 words.

In the passage about Gandhi, what does the author want you to know about the topic?

What is NOT a supporting detail to the main idea?

The following sentences go together to form a complete paragraph, but they are in the wrong order. Keeping in mind the idea of coherence, put them in the right order. After you have done the exercise, you may check your answer with that given by us at the end.

Monkeys cross natural barriers like rivers by swimming. What are some of the devices that man uses to cross natural barriers?

In the context of this passage, find a word i) with the same meaning as 'limited'? ii) which is the opposite of 'thrive'?

Re-write the paragraph revised for coherence?

List at least two examples of repetition in the excerpt. In addition to coherence, what is the specific effect of those examples of repetition?

Write at least one transitional word or phrase in the excerpt. What is the effect of that word or phrase?

Fill in the gaps by choosing the most appropriate words/phrases from the list given below:

1. Mr and Mn R N Khan, who live at A-79 Defence Colony, told P C Sahgal that they had been woken up at 5am by the sound of glass breaking, and had seen a - man with a monkey running out of the house opposite, no 58 2. In april 1987, IGNOU premises were the venue of a meeting on Wild Life Preservation it was organized by Prof. V K Kumar, Prof V R Gupta, and Dr S R Kapur the topics discussed were 'ant poaching laws, cruelty towards animals, opening of sanctuaries, etc

Insert full stops in these sentences and use capital letters where necessary.

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In the following paragraph the transitional words and phrases are missing. Fill in the gaps by choosing the most appropriate words/phrases from the list given below :
despite however also
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Of all the sea's possibilities for man's future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world's food supply. Square mile for square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. .....(i)…. at present the oceans supply only one or two per cent of man's food. ...(ii)... all that he is learning about the sea, man's relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. ...(iii)..., along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster's enemies to increase the yield ...(iv)..., in the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. ...(v)... this is just a beginning ....(vi)..., to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.

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