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Academic Communication for Advanced Secondary Schools Effective writing

conjunctions are words like although, before, as, if, since, despite, because, until,
while, unless and others. Subordinating conjunctions are frequently used in academic
writing and are a great way to connect ideas to develop long texts. Other examples
of complex sentences are as follows:
• Even though it was freezing outside, she chose not to wear a coat.
• By the time he got to the station, the bus had departed.
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• What he said was right, but it wasn’t very useful.

Activity 2�2
Read carefully the following sentences and respond to the questions accordingly.

1. There are errors with subject-verb agreement in the following sentences. Find
the errors in each sentence and rewrite the sentence correctly.
i. One of the athletes run fast.
ii. The folks who lives next door asked me to pick up their phone.
iii. Nganashe, John and Tau eats ugali.

iv. Each boy and girl eat ugali.
v. Either Bob or his brother eat ugali.
vi. The grandma with all of her little grandchildren eat ugali.
vii. Some of the ugali are eaten.
viii. Some of the students is eating ugali.

ix. My family with all my crazy cousins always eat ugali.
x. Economics are destroyed when we consistently cook more ugali than we
can consume.
xi. Ten kilograms of ugali are too much to be eaten by one person.
xii. I am famished! Where are my ugali?

xiii. “The main problem we face are people don’t eat ugali”, said the dietitian.
xiv. Eating ugali with my friends are my favourite.
xv. Girls who eats ugali are vivacious.
2. Use the knowledge you have acquired from the activity in 1 above to create your
own subject-verb agreement rules. Prepare a well-written paragraph describing
the rules and present it to the class for discussion.

Paragraph writing

For effective writing, one should clearly and concisely organise ideas and information.
In academic writing, paragraphs act as fundamental units of scholarly discourse that
facilitate the systematic exposition of ideas and arguments. To maintain coherence and

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