Write another paragraph. Write a topic sentence and four or five sentences that explain or support the central idea expressed in this sentence. If you can, use a variety of the four sentence types you studied in this section. As you work, check for unity in your supporting sentences. Repeat some words or use carefully chosen synonyms to help ensure unity. Be sure that your facts or ideas are presented in some logical sequence. Make liberal use of the connecting words you have learned.

In his adaptation of this excerpt, laurence olivier uses high cliffs as a a background and he holds onto a knife. what's effect do these choices have?

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief