Directions: Some of the following paragraphs lack coherence. Rewrite any faulty paragraphs, changing the order of sentences to make them coherent. 1. Second, she never missed a class. Elizabeth’s classmates knew that she would win the top award in chemistry during her senior year at Columbia University. Third, she performed every required experiment in all her chemistry courses. First, she had studied chemistry during her sophomore and junior years. Fourth, she always worked hard. 2. While standing in front of the information desk in the library, I saw some students using the files in the reference room some distance away. About fifteen feet from me, an old lady wearing a large red hat put on her glasses. She was studying a rare book in one of the locked display cases. Much closer to me, two students were quietly but seriously talking about a book. 3. I had a terrible morning today. In the middle of a class, I discovered I had left my physics assignments in my locker. I tripped over a curb on my way to my political science class and tore my raincoat. At the end of the class, the professor would not let me go to lunch on time. I slept so late that I did not have time to eat any breakfast. I had not turned in my assignments, and he wanted to talk over this problem with me. 4. Our candidates do not want our blessings. When she went to the polls, she took her ballot and simply wrote on the bottom of it, “God bless you all!” We should not be like the lady who knew all the candidates in a small town election and thought they were all such nice people that she could not choose among them, They want our votes. We must all use our right to vote. 5. But the state, s population, although it is growing at a tremendous rate, is well below that of the city of Pittsburgh. Arizona is a large state. Yet Arizona could absorb all six New England states, add Holland, and still have more than enough room to absorb Switzerland. Arizonans have plenty of living rooms. It is only 638,000. On a map, bordered by other western states, Arizona appears to be only of average size. 6. Why not start now? Use it correctly in conversation three times before tomorrow, s class. A good vocabulary, then can give you a real sense of power and a feeling of pleasure. The word will then be yours to keep. You’ll be on your way toward making yourself a master of words. If you learn a new word every day, in a year, s time you will have 365 new sources of power and pleasure. Look up the word Genial in a dictionary before you leave school this afternoon.