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Types of paragraphs
1. Types of paragraphs
IN THE FOLLOWING PRESENTATION WE WILL FIND THE
TYPES OF PARAGRAPHS THAT EXIST AND HIS DEFINITION,
WITH SOME EXAMPLES
2. Descriptive paragraph
It describes, following a logical criterion to a
person, object or event.
Example: It had a few round very vivacious eyes and a
few long gray moustaches. His tail was looking like a black
elastic tape. A few ducklings were wallowing in the reservoir,
seemed to a flock of yellow canaries, and his mother,
everything the white one with red legs, it was straining in
teaching them to sink the head in the water.
3. Explanatory paragraph
It offers an information more detailed and
extended about the topic that is exposed.
Example: A tree is a plant, of trunk of wood, which
extends his branches to certain height of the soil. When we
talk about the word "tree", generally one recounts to a plant
of 6 ó more meters of height, with several branches that grow
towards the sides, similar to the arms.
4. Expository Paragraph
In this paragraph the intention is inform about
the developed topic.
Example: The pollution is the introduction of
substances in the environment, that provoke
that this one is insecure or not suitable for his
use. The environment can be an ecosystem, a
physical way or an alive being.
5. Argumentative paragraph
Tries to convince with reasons and facts what
one denies or affirm in a topic, in a
information o in one fact
Example: The Routine, synthesis of all the renouncements, is the habit of
giving up thinking. In the routine ones everything is a minor effort; the sloth
rusts his intelligence. Every habit is a risk, because the familiarity agrees to
the detestable things and to the unworthy persons. The acts that initially were
provoking modesty, finish for they look like natives; the eye perceives the
violent tones as simple shades, the ear listens to the lies with equal respect
that the truths, the heart learns not to wave for awkward actions
6. Narrative paragraph
Reports about the facts or actions in a certain
time.
Example: It divided the train, black, length, with his two
locomotives. Esteban and Jacinta, in the pavement, at the
foot of the suitcases, saw him to move away between the
grove of evergreen oaks, with an emotion of good-bye to
something painful of that existed they started and
dismissed forever.
7. Comparative paragraph
Presents similarities between two or more
objects, events or other actions.
Example: The difference between the vehicles diesel
and to petrol it does not correspond only to the type of
fuel, also it applies to structural differences of the
engines, to his performance, power and capacity of
traction, which is in the habit of being major in the diesel
engines and they have a consumption of more limited
enough fuel.
8. Paragraph of reason and effect
Presents a fact and that one that has caused it,
and the consequences that this one can bring.
Example: A young boy with a high levels of alcohol,(cause)
decided to drive, but it lost the control of the car in a curve
and crush against a tree.(effect).
9. Deductive paragraph
The principal idea is initially of the top of the text,
later complement each other with specific cases.
Example: No agent of social dissolution as active as the
feminism, who again more appears in the history marking a
contrast of the civilization.
The phenomenon is known, in effect. Every solvent crisis
from that the peoples suffer in certain epochs, to transform
his concepts and social characters, presents in the feminism
the most serious expression of his disorder.
10. Inductive
paragraph
The principal idea is placed
ultimately, consists of
analyzing several individual
experiences to extract from
them a more general beginning
Example: Pedro it goes to his
study of languages on Thursday.
Today it is Thursday. Therefore,
Pedro it has he will be present
today at his class of language.
11. Another types of
paragraphs
Exist other types of
paragraphs, which are very
important, between them we
find the chronological
paragraph, of enumeration or
of conclusion.
All of this with the same
importance for the grammar and
the writing
Text.
