LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - STARTERS

Question 1

LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

• Endeavors to s
• Endeavors to p
• Endeavors to put
• Expresses a

Answer 1

• [ ] endeavors to show that
• [ ] endeavors to prove that
• [ ] endeavors to put forth that
• [ ] endeavors to show
• Expresses a view… to the effect that

Question 2

LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

• Seeks to
• Believes
• Having … then
• Endeavors to e…
• Having … goes on
• Argues

Answer 2

• [ ] seeks to criticise
• Believes that
• Having dismissed … [ ] then
• [ ] endeavors to expose
• Having dismissed… goes on to…
• [ ] argues that

Question 3

LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

• Claims
• The… suggests
• … makes a connection
• … concludes
• According …
• Another reason …

Answer 3

• [ ] claims that
• the … suggests that…
• The [ ] makes a connection between
• [ ] concludes that
• According to [ ]
• Another reason why [ ] thinks

Question 4

LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

• … takes his argument
• … Argues not only…
• One example
• offers…
• … begins by discussing
• … levels various criticisms…

Answer 4

• [ ] takes his argument further in suggesting that…
• [ ] argues not only that… but also…
• One example of this is…
• [ ] offers…
• [ ] begins by discussing
• [ ] levels various criticisms against

Question 5

LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

• … contends…
• … attacks
• … concern
• … presents…
• In delimiting…
• Arguably…
• Generally…
• … also seems…
• … attempts to show
• Because of the examples…

Answer 5

• [ ] contends that
• [ ] attacks
• [ ] concern is with…
• [ ] presents his views about…
• in delimiting the ways in which
  … [ ] …
• Arguably…
• Generally assumed that…
• He also seems to…
• [ ] attempts to show how…
• Because of the examples that [ ] has chosen to use..

Question 6

LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS (INTRODUCTION)

• The writer asserts…
• Quickly establishes…
• In a … tone…
• The point of view…

Answer 6

• The writer asserts that
• Quickly establishes the main contention that
• In a … tone, the writer declares/contends that…
• The point of view presented by [ ] is…

Question 7

LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS (PARAGRAPHS)

• Predisposes…
• … lend credibility
• The writer seeks to…
• The writer aims to…
• By relentlessly attacking…
• By addressing the…

Answer 7

• … predisposes us to…
• … lend credibility to the writer’s argument
• … the writer seeks to coerce the reader into believing that…
• The [ ] aims to appeal to…
• By relentlessly attacking the opposing the view, the [ ] leads us to accept that…
• By addressing the reader informally, the writer establishes a sense…