Simple and Compound Sentences

Choose the subject of the following sentence:

Chile imports oil from Brazil.

Choose all the verbs of the following sentence:

Chile imports oil and exports copper.

Choose all the subjects of the following sentence:

Chile and Brazil import clothing and export copper.

1. Certain words in a title may catch the reader's attention, but some titles are too general and do not create interest.

2. All of the sentences in a well-written paragraph talk about one topic.

3. Sometimes a simple sentence has a compound subject or verb, but it never has more than one subject-verb combination.

4. The first step in writing feels like a storm of ideas in your mind, so it is called "brainstorming."

Some students think choosing a good topic and writing the first sentence is the hardest part of writing a paragraph.