English Skills with Readings 9th Edition by John Langan, Zoe Albright

Exercise 2

The assignment here is to complete an unfinished paragraph (in the box), which has as its topic sentence, “My husband Roger is a selfish person.” Provide the supporting details needed to develop the examples of Roger’s selfishness. The first example has been done for you.

A Selfish Person

My husband Roger is a selfish person. For one thing, he refuses to move out of the city, even though it is a bad place to raise the children.

We inherited some money when my parents died, and it might be enough for a down payment on a small house in a nearby town.But Roger says he would miss his buddies in the neighborhood._________________________________________

Also, when we go on vacation, we always go where Roger wants to go.

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Another example of Roger’s selfishness is that he always spends any budget money that is left over.____________________________________________________________

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Finally, Roger leaves all the work of caring for the children to me.

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