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Sentence Practice 2

Source material: "I also learned that some children, as they get older, turn out to possess what child psychologists call a 'paracosm.' A paracosm is a society thought up by a child---an invented universe with a distinctive language, geography, and history. (The Brontës invented a couple of paracosms when they were children.)" (Adam Gopnik, "Bumping into Mr. Ravioli," New Yorker, September 30, 2002, 80-84; the quotation comes from p. 81)

1 .       Adam Gopnik observes that some older children turn out to have what child psychologists call a "paracosm." A paracosm is a society thought up by a child---an imagined world with a distinctive language, geography, and history (p. 81). 

 
 
2 .       Some older children create a paracosm, "an invented universe with a distinctive language, geography, and history" (Gopnik 81). 

 
 
3 .       The Brontës invented several paracosms when they were children. 

 
 
4 .       A paracosm in an invented universe with a unique language, geography, and history. 

 
 
5 .       According to Gopnik, as some children get older, they "turn out to possess what child psychologists call a 'paracosm.' A paracosm is a society thought up by a child---an invented universe with a distinctive language, geography, and history" (81). 

 
 





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