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Unit-11 Writing Summaries-1

This unit will help you write summaries of passages by giving you practice.

Summary B

Paragraph 1Sentence (2) Most of the plants that are important to people, for example corn and wheat, were domesticated in pre-historic times yet records of the domestication of plants are very recent. 

Summary C


Paragraph 1Sentence (2) Most of the important plants, e.g., corn and wheat, were domesticated in pre-historic times, but scientists are still trying to domesticate more plants.



Question: What changes has been introduced in the second sentence of Summary C to make it different from Summary B?




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Written on Jun 26, 2019 3:23:41 PM

The changes that have been made are:

i) for example-🡪e.g.

ii) 'but scientists are still trying to domesticate more plants' (Summary C) is taken chiefly from paragraph 2, sentence 1, Summary B (‘The jojoba is an example of a plant that scientists are trying to domesticate’). It is stated here as a generalisation which links it to the description of the jojoba plant in the second paragraph.