True or false: composition
Read exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- The paragraph is the unit of composition.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Each paragraph should as a rule begin with a topic sentence.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Co-ordinate ideas should be expressed in similar form.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Related words should be kept far apart.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- The emphatic words of a sentence belong at the end.
Each line is one of Strunk's principles, stated straight or bent. Source: The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (1918), public domain.