paragraph
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1.5
- noun
- /ˈpærəˌɡræf/
:
párrafo
- In his essay, he used each paragraph to discuss different aspects of the topic.
- write a paragraph
- the first paragraph
- read a paragraph
I want you to read that paragraph for the record out loud.
- I want you to read that paragraph for the record out loud.
- And usually it's just a paragraph that they want from us.
- And now we finally reach the last paragraph itself.
- Here's what I take to be the climactic paragraph in in Bohr's paper.
- OK, so for one, this paragraph's very brutal, very graphic.
- This is maybe the longest paragraph I've seen in this book so far.
- It's literally which words do you choose in a description paragraph to capture the moment?
- Don't be, don't write paragraphs, just a short pithy statement.
- Don't do long paragraphs of details.
- And it said this in the first paragraph verbatim because I'm a memory expert.
Examples
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Instead, I required students to write at least a paragraph for every class session in response to the reading.
Academic text (2011) -
Then use your list to write a paragraph about humans' fascination with extraterrestrial life.
Academic text (2011) -
And usually it's just a paragraph that they want from us.
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And now we finally reach the last paragraph itself.
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And then you get to this last paragraph, which people read all the time.
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We'll start with the individual words we choose, then move on to sentence and paragraph construction.
Academic text (2011) -
I only have to write one paragraph on an emotion.
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It's really hard, though, because I know with each paragraph I write I'm losing one more reader.
Academic text (1999) -
It gives the council, as we saw in the last paragraph, what happens.
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Then she climbed back into bed and reread the paragraph she had just finished.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
149
2.8
A short part of a text or musical piece
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
paragraph = para + graph
This is a classical Greek-derived formation, but the modern meaning 'a distinct section of text' is not predictable from para- + graph- for most learners.
Etymology
Paragraph comes from Greek parts para- meaning 'beside' and graph meaning 'write', and it first meant a mark at the side of a page showing a new section. So a paragraph is a part of writing that shows one idea.