Cohesion, Parallelism & Concision

Teaching points

• • Cohesion:
• • choose transitions by relationship.
• • Parallelism:
• • keep equal ideas in equal grammatical forms.
• • Concision:
• • remove repetition and empty phrases.
• • Common reductions:
• • due to the fact that → because
• • in order to → to
• • made the decision to → decided to

الترابط: - اختر أداة الانتقال حسب العلاقة المنطقية. التوازي: - اجعل الأفكار المتساوية في صيغة نحوية متساوية. الإيجاز: - احذف التكرار والعبارات الزائدة. أمثلة: due to the fact that → because in order to → to made the decision to → decided to

Examples

• • Wordy: Due to the fact that demand increased, the company made the decision to hire more staff.
• • Concise: Because demand increased, the company decided to hire more staff.

Practice

Quick check — اختبار سريع

1. 1. Choose the best sentence. A. The course improves reading, to develop writing, and speaking confidently. B. The course improves reading, develops writing, and builds speaking confidence. C. The course improving reading, develops writing, and speaking confidence. D. The course improves reading and to develop writing and speaking confidently.