Weekly Blog 6_Lunkun Deng

We will begin the study of grammar with basic sentences—the sentence patterns; we will then look at the separate parts of the patterns; and finally we will examine the systematic way we expand and modify and combine them. (Martha Kolln, Understanding English Grammar)


I think this paragraph that I take from the book “Understanding English Grammar” is a model pattern of cohesion and coherence. The paragraph consists of three sentences. All the three sentences are coherent in both structure and contents.

In regards to structure, the first sentence uses the word “begin” as the signal. Following the first one, the second sentence uses the signal word “then” as the mark of time. At last, the word “finally” continues the third sentence from the second one.

In regards of contents, the first sentence gives us the general information of what we well study. We will study “grammar”, to be more specific, basic sentences—the sentence patterns. The second sentence then makes a transition from “sentence patterns” to a more detailed “separate parts of the patterns”. Finally the last sentence takes the information “separate parts of the patterns”, which is familiar to us readers as stated before, into new information “systematic way”.

The whole paragraph starts with general information and then become more specific in detailed aspects of the general parts mentioned before. It would be a good way in introduce a professional subject.


I will start my research paper with the relationship between ideology and economy; I will then introduce some certain political system’s effect in economy; and finally I will take China as an example to explore how the combination of socialism and capitalism contribute to the development of China in recent decades.