--- title: Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 37 «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a tex… # Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together The 15 questions of lesson 37 «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 89 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t1/) — Your mate goes "paragraphs are just there so the page looks less scary, bruv." What is the truth? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t2/) — ★★★ A story goes: (1) At home, Mia packs. (2) On the train, she reads. (3) Still on the train, a man sits down. (4) The next morning, in Paris, she wakes. How many paragraphs by TiPToP, if a new person arriving counts? — right ✓ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t3/) — In a cartoon, a boy writes his whole holiday diary as one line on a long roll of paper. What would a teacher tell him? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t4/) — What would happen if a writer used "he" all the way through a story about three boys? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t5/) — A Scottish nan says "Yer story's braw, hen, but it's aw wan lump." ("Braw" is lovely, "hen" a friendly word, "aw wan lump" is all one lump.) What does she want? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t6/) — ★★★ Which sentence starts a paragraph that clearly follows one about breakfast? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t7/) — Your brother, bit sharp: "Stop starting every sentence with 'then', it's doing my head in." What could you use instead? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t8/) — A boy in Georgia writes "Y'all, I got three reasons." ("Y'all" means you all.) In a formal report, which opening works better? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t9/) — ★★★ In a report on owls, paragraph 2 is about food and paragraph 3 begins "Their sharp claws are not only for hunting." Why is that a clever link? — right ✓ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t10/) — A cousin from Sydney says "My report's got heaps of headings, mate." ("Heaps" means lots.) When are headings most useful? — right ✓ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/t11/) — Which ordering signposts belong together in a non-fiction text? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/e1/) — Identify the principal function of a paragraph. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/e2/) — Which of the following most accurately characterises the mnemonic "TiPToP"? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/e3/) — Select the response consistent with established conventions concerning cohesion. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/e4/) — Ascertain the defect in the sentence "Tom met Sam and he laughed". — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [36. Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/) - next →: [38. Standard English and dialect: "we was" in talk,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/)