B1 a short part of a text, consisting of at least one sentence and beginning on a new line. It usually deals with a single event, description, idea, etc.
Examples
- Can you pick out the three deliberate mistakes in this paragraph?
- Cut that paragraph and then paste it at the end of the page.
- Now turn to page 23 and look at the first paragraph.
- Each new paragraph should be indented about two centimetres from the margin.
- You just need to tweak the last paragraph and then it's done.
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