Now that you have a solid understanding of how the sentences relate to each other (see the Transitional Words and Phrases lesson), dig deeper into questions that test the structure of your sentences, paragraphs, and passages. The same concepts apply.

You will surely notice how different thoughts are connected.

1. Organization, Unity, and Cohesion Questions

Depending on the question, you may be asked to identify or select a paragraph's logical conclusion. Make selections that summarize the information already presented. A helpful hint in such cases are causal transitional words such as 'thus' and 'necessarily'. As mentioned above, the period that appears after the transition word should make sense as the end of the paragraph.

2. Organization of Sentences

When you reorganize a sentence, you decide which parts of the sentence go where. You will be asked to rearrange the parts so that the completed sentence is clear, legible, and expresses the intended idea. About half of the restructuring questions relate to sentences, often with inappropriate qualifiers. Luckily, you've already learned almost everything you need to know about sentence restructuring. Modifiers, conjunctions, sentence structure, correct punctuation to separate phrases.

Your goal is to make your sentences easy to read and easy to understand which adjectives and adverbs correspond to which nouns and verbs. Modifiers should be next to the word they modify, and sentences should flow logically.

3. Organization of Paragraphs

The basic logic used to reorganize paragraphs is the same as the logic used to reorganize sentences. Ideas should flow logically from beginning to end. Usually, you put an introductory sentence at the beginning, a detailed sentence in the middle, and a concluding sentence at the end. Paragraphs should not contain irrelevant or irrelevant material. In fact, for many questions, "remove underlined sentences" is the correct choice. Paragraph reorganization questions occur at the end of a paragraph

4. Organization of Passages

For questions about passage structure, you will be asked to confirm the order of paragraphs in the passage, suggest a new order, or decide where a particular paragraph should be placed in the passage.

The key to solving passage restructuring questions is to focus on the subject of each paragraph. If you only read the first sentence of each paragraph, you should see a natural, logical flow of information. The topic sentence should indicate which paragraph is at the beginning and which is at the end of the passage.

Like sentences within paragraphs, paragraphs within passages begin with a general introduction, go into specific details, and end with a general conclusion. Detailed topics are usually pushed out in the middle, with broader, more general statements or arguments made first or last.

Some questions about passage structure ask about the purpose that a particular paragraph serves in the passage. Many of these questions ask if the paragraph is related to the entire sentence.