Paragraph Types

1. PARAGRAPH TYPES
Presented by: Claudia Patricia Martínez García.
Julieth Hemer Alzate

2. ¿WHAT IS A PARAGRAPH?
 Set of words.
 Speech in a written text that expresses an idea or an
argument, or reproduces the words of a story or the
current life. It is integrated by a set of sentences that
have a certain thematic unit or that, without having it,
are enunciated together. It is a component of the text
that in its external aspect starts with a capital letter
and ends at a point and apart. It comprises several
related sentences on the same sub-theme; One of
them expresses the main idea.
(http://www.listadepalabras.es/palabra_significado.php?woordid=PARAGRAFO)

3. ¿ELEMENT OF A PARAGRAPH?
 TOPIC SENTENCES.
 SUPPORTING SENTENCES.
 CONCLUDING SENTENCES.

4. ¿TYPE OF PARAGRAPH?
 Chronological Paragraph.
 Enumeration paragraph
 Descriptive paragraph.
 Explanatory paragraph.
 Expository paragraph.
 Argumentative paragraph.
 Narrative paragraph.
 Comparative paragraph.
 Causes and effects paragraph.
 Deductive paragraph.
 Inductive paragraph.

5. CHRONOLOGICAL PARAGRAPH
The chronological paragraph expresses the order of events.

6. The paragraph of Enumeration: Characteristics that suggest to the same
fact, object or subject and a connecting phrase that allows an
understanding of what is being ordered.
ENUMERATION PARAGRAPH

7. Descriptive Paragraph: Represents specific characteristics of an
object, animal, person or place.
DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH

8. EXPLANATORY PARAGRAPH
The Explanatory Paragraph: Provides detailed and extensive information
on the subject matter and main idea of the text.

9. EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH
The Expositive Paragraph: It reports several events without including
subjective comments, nor convince the reader.

10. ARGUMENTATIVE PARAGRAPH
The Argumentative Paragraph: Seeks the persuasion of the interlocutor
through the exposition justification or refutation of the subject to be
treated.

11. NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH
The Narrative Paragraph: It exposes in a progressive and orderly historical
facts, of time.

12. COMPARATIVE PARAGRAPH
The Comparative Paragraph: It exposes differences and similarities
between traits, activities and vocations.

13. CAUSES AND EFFECTS PARAGRAPH
The paragraph Cause and Effect: They expose the facts of the
situations and what originated them, the consequences and their
solutions.

14. DEDUCTIVE PARAGRAPH
The Deductive Paragraph: This presents at the beginning of the
paragraph the main idea, and later reach more specific and concrete
premises.

15. INDUCTIVE PARAGRAPH
The Inductive Paragraph: This presents the main idea at the end of the
paragraph, expressing secondary premises until arriving at a general or
specific conclusion.