Thesis Statement To avoid generalizations In the film The Breakfast Club the adolescents display different behaviours, roles, and identities as a result of a strained relationship with their parents, pressure from parents and friends, and the difference between adolescents’ self-image and the adults’ image of adolescents.  to raise specific issues for the essay to explore In the film The Breakfast Club, Claire, Brian, Andrew, John, and Allison are adolescents who display different behaviours, roles, and identities as a result of a strained relationship with their parents, pressure from parents and friends, and the difference between The Breakfast Club adolescents’ self-image and the adults’ image of that teenage group.

Topic Sentence  It is the first sentence of the paragraph  It describes the point of the paragraph  It must state specific points  To avoid generalizations we can use questions like: who, what, where, when, and why  You should stick to what you can provide evidence for

NOUN PHRASES A phrase with a noun as its head is a noun pharse. The head can be preceded by determiners, such as the, a, her, and can be accompanied by modifiers. Examples: A house these houses The little girl next door

Compounding Structural pattern examples Noun+noun bar code database Noun+verb/noun gunfire moonwalk Noun+verb-er dishwasher Noun+verb-ing housekeeping Verb/noun+noun cookbook swimsuit Self+noun self-control Verb-ing+noun printing-press Adjective+noun real state Verb+particle checkout

Incorrect noun phrase: family relationship difficulties Adolescents peer groups Correct noun phrase: Difficult family relationships Peer adolescent groups