Why do you need to know how to write a persuasive paper

Persuasive writing plays an important role in our everyday lives. From the TV chef telling us to cook healthy meals, to a magazine article detailing why we need to exercise regularly – providing a point of view and backing it up with facts to persuade the reader, is a critical skill for our kids to learn.

Simply put, to be able to express their ideas and opinions in a constructive way on paper is something they’ll rely on in their professional and personal lives.

So what can parents do to help their children develop persuasive writing? In our next blog post we’ll highlight

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).