ACT Preparation / Unit 6 ACT 0501 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Patterns of Order
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The idea
Ideas can be ordered by time, by importance, from general to specific or the reverse, or by comparison and contrast.
In practice
Steps in a recipe go in time order; an argument may lead with its most important reason.
Where people slip
One sentence out of sequence breaks the pattern for every sentence after it.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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