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RE: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? )
Subject:RE: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? ) From:"DeGuzman, Kathi" <Kathi -dot- Deguzman -at- Nextel -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:11:56 -0500
Sorry, I could not figure out a better way to describe what I wanted her to
do. Here is the long version...
My daughter had written her essay on what she does to get ready for the
holidays. The page contained several sentences describing things that she
did. I wanted to know how many paragraphs she had written at that time. She
looked at me like I asked her where we were going to put our new pet
elephant, that is as if I was crazy. She did not know where a paragraph
would begin and end. She could not tell me that a paragraph usually
expresses a single thought, starting with a topic sentence. --- etc. Isn't
that basic English? Shouldn't young kids be taught this kind of information
in grade school?
-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:01 PM
To: DeGuzman, Kathi; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which
One? )
> English essay and when I asked her if she knew what "determined" a
> paragraph, I was appalled (not at her, but at her earlier training)
> that she did not.
I'm in the boat with her. What DOES "detirmine" a paragraph mean?
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