Q1: Read the following sentences.

As you read complete the

following tasks:
A. Identify and correct sentences which are too broad or too narrow (TB/TN)
B. Identify and correct sentences which announce the topic (A)
C. Identify and correct incomplete ideas (INC)
D. Identify the thesis statements that are fine as they are (OK)
1. Manitoba is famous for its landscape, weather, and Festival du Voyageur.
2. Miss X can make fifteen different types of pie.
3. If you quit eating out, you may save more money.
4. If more people quit smoking there would be fewer government resources
needed to pay for long hospital stays, expensive equipment and costly
awareness programs.
5. James listens to hard rock every night before bed.
6. This essay identifies Canadas greatest prime ministers, doctors, and
curlers.
7. The movies graphics made the audience feel like they were fighting
aliens too.
8. Religion is a controversial issue.
9. How I arrived at the library.
10. This essay concerns the role of moss in the arctic ecosystem.

(OK)
(TN)
(TN)
(OK)
(TN)
(A)
(TN)
(TB)
(INC)
(A)

Q2. Rewrite the following statements to make the thesis clearer.

1. The government should care about mental health.
The government should build specialized hospitals to care about people mental
health.
2. The TLC Centre provides great resources for understanding how to use
commas.
Many resources helps different students to understand
commas by tlc center.
3. Patients like nurses when they are nice.
Nice behavior by nurses makes patients com for table.
4. Dragons can be scary when they breathe fire.
Dragons make people afraid of getting burned.

Q3. Read each of the following statements. If the statement is a

thesis, mark TH on the blank line. If the statement is a title, mark T.
If the statement is a fact, mark F.

1. In the United States, kindergarten is not compulsory.

(F)

2. Children should begin learning to read in kindergarten.

(TH)

3. Putting a child into kindergarten before he or she is ready can have

several unfortunate effects on that child.

(TH)

4. Learning to read in kindergarten

5. In some European countries, children do not begin formal schooling until
the age of seven.

(T)
(F)

Q4. Identify each of the following as a title (T), a thesis (TH), or a

fact (F).

1. It is estimated that two hundred grizzly bears live in Yellowstone National

Park.
2. The survival of grizzly bears in our country should be a top priority.
3. When bears are young cubs, there are twice as many males as females.
4. Only about 60 percent of bear cubs survive the first few years of life.
5. Bears, a precious natural resource.
6. The average life span of a bear today is only five or six years.
7. The sad plight of the American grizzly bear.
8. Five actions need to be taken to save the grizzly bear from extinction.
9. To save the grizzly bear, we need laws from Congress, the cooperation of
hunters and campers, and an educated general public.
10. A decision to save the grizzly bear.

(F)
(TH)
(F)
(F)
(T)
(F)
(T)
(TH)
(TH)
(T)

Structure of the Thesis

Statements
Topic + Comment.
The topic is the subject
of the main verb

Example

The comment is remaining

of the sentence