Sentence structure Separately

The single most important key to the meaning of a sentence is its structure. The best and easiest way to determine sentence structure is to look at punctuation. Sentence completion questions always have one or more commas or semicolons. The basic strategy is to separate the sentence into units divided by punctuation. Often, one of the units will express a complete thought, and at least one unit will have one or two blanks. The unit that expresses a complete thought will tell you what the unit(s) with blank(s) need to say. 

Plaper et al. (2002) use a stand-alone Discussion section, rather than a combined R D section. According to the move structure in figure 5.1, a separate Discussion section should begin with a brief reminder of a specific result or set of results this is essentially how Plaper et al. (2002) begin. The authors first remind the readers about the study in general (in the first two sentences) then, in the third sentence, they remind the readers specifically about the Pro-Tox (C) assay with chromium chloride. 

At the time, 1957, the structure of insulin had only been known for two years and there was no readily available method for determining insulin in tissues. The method for assaying insulin depended on a bioassay to quantify the dose that caused hypoglycaemic convulsions in mice. Extracts from the deceased woman s tissues were assayed in this manner, along with tissues from other bodies as a control. The analyst reported that he had examined three separate samples from Elizabeth Barlow s buttock samples and had found a total of 84 units of insulin. These amounts roughly equated to the therapeutic dose required to sustain two patients for a day. Elizabeth Barlow was not diabetic. Kenneth Barlow was arrested on suspicion of murder, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment at Leeds Assizes in December 1987. He was... 

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