1. She wrote an essay on My Family.

2. This essay shows considerable intelligence.

3. My essay is practically finished now.

4. I've been toiling away at this essay all weekend.

5. I still haven't finished my essay.

6. His essay is not based on hard science.

7. I've finished my essay at last!

8. The essay didn't come up to his usual standards.

9. I'll have to rewrite most of the essay.

10. There are too many mistakes in this essay.

11. Your essay lacks internal coherence.

12. The extract is taken from a long essay.

13. Carlos was awarded first prize in the essay competition.

14. Write an essay of about five hundred words.

15. It's an essay heavy with surplus phrasing.

16. This essay is not very adventurous.

17. She said my last essay was complete tripe.

17. is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

18. She's swanking just because they said her essay was the best.

19. The matter in your essay is good but the style is deplorable.

20. I've been slogging away for days on this essay and I'm still not finished.

21. An overall theme will help to give your essay coherence.

22. Your essay should be no more than two thousand words long.

23. For homework I want you to write an essay on endangered species.

24. He was writing his essay when, all of a sudden, he was seized with giddiness.

25. I want to finish off this essay before I go to bed.

26. The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests.

27. Write the essay in your books, not on rough paper.

28. There is a large crop of mistakes in your essay.

29. Would you be willing to help me with my essay?

30. You should draw up a plan or outline for the essay.

1. She wrote an essay on My Family.

2. My essay is practically finished now.

3. I've been toiling away at this essay all weekend.

4. I still haven't finished my essay.

5. His essay is not based on hard science.

6. I've finished my essay at last!

7. The essay didn't come up to his usual standards.

8. I'll have to rewrite most of the essay.

9. There are too many mistakes in this essay.

10. Your essay lacks internal coherence.

11. The extract is taken from a long essay.

12. Carlos was awarded first prize in the essay competition.

13. Write an essay of about five hundred words.

14. It's an essay heavy with surplus phrasing.

15. This essay is not very adventurous.

16. She said my last essay was complete tripe.

17. The matter in your essay is good but the style is deplorable.

17. is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

18. I've been slogging away for days on this essay and I'm still not finished.

19. An overall theme will help to give your essay coherence.

20. Your essay should be no more than two thousand words long.

21. For homework I want you to write an essay on endangered species.

22. I want to finish off this essay before I go to bed.

23. The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests.

24. Would you be willing to help me with my essay?

25. You should draw up a plan or outline for the essay.

26. The essay treats of the progress in cancer research.

27. This is a thoughtful essay.

28. I inadvertently passed this essay by.

29. The paragraph is really an essay in little.

30. I wrote tortuous essay for obscure journals.

31. This essay has got Mike written all over it.

32. He's been slaving over his history essay.

33. There are a few mistakes in your essay.

34. He made some very good points in his essay.

35. She pegged away at her essay.

36. The editor pared down an essay for publication.

37. Write an outline for your essay.

38. Your essay is full of spelling mistakes/errors.

39. We've got to write an essay on the environment.

40. Mr Biggs has set us a 2000-word essay.

41. There are too many spelling mistakes in this essay.

42. She's been sweating over that essay all afternoon.

43. I'm afraid this essay is a poor effort.

44. It took four hours to write the essay.

45. Her essay is full of spelling mistakes.

46. Your essay should be written on plain paper .

47. This essay is just not good enough.

47. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!

48. She asked me to redo the essay.

49. He said he planned to write his essay tonight.

50. The essay was cobbled together from some old notes.

51. Try to prune your essay of irrelevant detail.

52. This essay will have to be completely rewritten.

53. I only just finished my essay in time.

54. The essay was wrongly paginated.

55. The essay treats of the progress in cancer research.

56. Your essay is full of mistakes.

57. His first essay in politics was a complete disaster.

58. This is a thoughtful essay.

59. It's a competent essay but it lacks individuality.

60. His essay was clearly and interestingly written.

31. He threaded several causal ideas into a charming essay.

32. This essay hardly makes any sense , it's neither rhyme nor reason.

33. She needs the discipline of having to write an essay every week.

34.

61. The essay contains a number of factual errors.

62. Can you look at my essay sometime?

63. His essay was a hotchpotch of other people's ideas.

64. Oh, I've been up all night, finishing my essay.

65. She got an extension for writing her essay.

66. Not enough thought has gone into this essay.

67. The book aims to teach effective essay writing.

68. The essay filled seven sides of A4 paper.

69. The essay treats of the economic reform.

70. First do a rough draft of your essay.

71. Have you given that essay in yet?

72. How are you getting on with your essay?

73. The essay was a meaningless jumble of ideas.

74. This essay is a most conscientious piece of work.

75. She got top marks for her essay.

76. Anecdotes have no place in an academic essay.

77. He's been at his essay all night.

78. I'm tickled pink that my essay won the prize.

79. The essay begins with a citation from 'Hamlet'.

80. Your essay does not address the real issues.

81. I inadvertently passed this essay by.

82. The essay competition attracted 46 entrants.

83. The paragraph is really an essay in little.

84. She made several minor amendments to her essay.

85. It's a good essay as far as it goes.

86. His essay was full of mistakes.

87. When does your essay have to be in?

88. The teacher wrote 'v. good' on my essay.

89. The essay represents a solid week's work.

90. This essay is full of misspellings.

91. The teacher gave us an essay for our homework.

92. I had to write the essay all over again.

93. Have you done your essay yet?

94. The essay was a bit weak on detail.

95. This is the worst essay I've read.

96. Do the essay over, it was no good.

97. The essay was appallingly written.

98. I wrote tortuous essay for obscure journals.

99. I felt his essay needed a little pruning.

100. He sat bashing away at his essay all day.

101. I'm really struggling with this essay.

102. Your essay is littered with spelling mistakes.

103. I really sweated over my last essay.

104. The essay isn't even remotely relevant to the topic.

105. You should include some examples in your essay.

106. She cobbled together an essay in half an hour.

107. Have you handed your essay in yet?

108. Have you handed in your history essay yet?

109. He threaded several causal ideas into a charming essay.

110. His essay was full of spelling errors.

111. I'm afraid your last essay was a very scrappy piece of work.

112. Lucy gave up all thought of finishing the essay that day.

113. I've been beating my brains out all week trying to finish this essay.

114. There are a lot of spelling mistakes; even so, it's quite a good essay.

115. It's time I got down to thinking about that essay.

116. In the exam she rose to the occasion and wrote a brilliant essay.

117. She only gave me a B for my last essay.

118. Your essay needs structure.

119. The essay suddenly switches from a formal to an informal register.

120. Choose an essay topic that you can really get your teeth into.

121. If I get an A on this essay, that will bring my average up to a B+.

122. Oh well, that's enough chatting. I suppose I'd better bash on with this essay.

123. I'd like to discuss the first point in your essay.

124. You haven't set out your ideas very clearly in this essay.

125. With more thought and care this would have been a first-class essay.

126. List all your sources at the end of your essay.

127. If you could prune away the unnecessary adjectives in this essay, it would be improved.

128. I'm having trouble giving shape to my ideas in this essay.

129. Your essay contains too much description, and not enough discussion of the issues.

130. I got a rap on the knuckles for not finishing my essay on time.

131. This essay is so short that it can only scratch the surface of the topic.

132. Once I get into my stride I can finish an essay in a few hours.

133. I feel quite tired today . With adjectives that describe an extreme state it means 'completely' or 'absolutely':I feel quite exhausted. With some adjectives, both meanings are possible. The speaker's stress and intonation will show you which is meant:Your essay is quite good ; Your essay is quite good .

134. Let's go for a coffee when you've finished your essay.

135. Getting the essay done on time will be a tall order.

136. It's not good style to use abbreviations in an essay.

137. She said I should avoid repetition of words in my essay.

138. The exam consists of an essay and an unseen translation.

139. I want to have a go at finishing my essay tonight.

140. The teacher taught the students how to paragraph an essay.

141. In general her work has been good, but this essay is dreadful.

142. Your essay is good, you just need to polish it a bit.

143. The author takes Freud's dream theories as the point of departure for his essay.

144. To write a good essay you must first organize your ideas logically.

145. The points you make are fine, but the whole essay lacks coherence.

146. There are many spelling mistakes; even so it's quite a good essay.

147. I've written one page of my essay: it's not much but it's a start.

148. I got a few days' grace to finish my essay.

149. The other day I came across an interesting essay on the war with Napoleon.

150. I can't come out tonight - I've got to do my history essay.

151. You're making a mountain out of a molehill. You wrote one bad essay - it doesn't mean you're going to fail your exam.

152. I've asked him to give me a couple more days to finish my essay.

153. Note down the main points you want to include in your essay.

154. Start each section of your essay on a new page.

155. He could run off a five-page essay in an hour.

156. The content of your essay is excellent, but it's not very well expressed.

157. Your last essay wasn't up to scratch/didn't come up to scratch.

158. Write the title of your essay on the top line.

159. The last essay I gave him he completely pulled apart.

160. I hurryscurried with the essay which they asked me to write.

161. I won the essay prize, then was offered a scholarship: nothing succeeds like success!

162. His essay needs polishing.

163. The essay started interestingly, but failed to follow through .

164. This essay is not of an acceptable standard - do it again.

165. She was up until the small hours of the morning trying to finish her essay.

166. She has been beavering away at that essay for hours.

167. This essay is a definite improvement on your last one.

168. You have to answer 3 out of 8 essay questions in the exam.

169. If you leave your essay until the last minute, you'll almost certainly panic.

170. In this essay he has used the same verbs over and over again.

171. The student cobbled together an essay in half an hour.

172. This essay hardly makes any sense , it's neither rhyme nor reason.

173. Give careful thought to how to structure your ideas in the essay.

174. She needs the discipline of having to write an essay every week.

175. She could get that essay done in a couple of hours if she really tried.

176. In an essay of 2000 words, you can pack a lot in.

177. The essay first appeared in an anthology of feminist criticism.

178. She was disappointed to see her essay returned with a mass of corrections in red ink.

179. He thoroughly takes the German national charater apart in the essay.

180. Remember to go over your essay checking for grammar and spelling mistakes before you hand it in to me.

181. Could you cut your essay from 5 000 to 3 000 words?

182. I plan out an essay in note form before writing it up in continuous prose.

183. Could you cut your essay from 10000 to 5000 words?

184. I've been trying to write this essay all day and I've got nothing to show for it.

185. You're going to have to do a lot more work on this essay before it's presentable.

186. We asked Jason to write an essay about his hometown and about his place in it.

187. The historical aspect formed the main theme of her essay.

188. The essay needn't be too long; as a rough guide, you should write about three pages.

189. The essay should be a readable condensation of the recent scientific literature.

190. Your essay gets a bit confused halfway through when you introduce too many ideas at once.

191. It could have been an interesting essay, but there was too much padding.

192. NB The opinions stated in this essay do not necessarily represent those of the Church of God Missionary Society.

193. In her essay,() she characterizes the whole era as a period of radical change.

194. I'm not going to break my neck to finish my essay today my teacher doesn't want it until next week.

195. Resist the temptation to discuss topics that are not strictly relevant to the essay question.

196. Spend a couple of minutes just reading through your essay.

197. He took my essay apart but I found his criticism helpful.

198. The title of the essay bore little relation to the contents.

199. Keep a copy of the rough version of your essay.

200. Cut and paste this quotation from the first paragraph into the middle of our essay.

201. I can't come with you - I have an essay to write.

202. Your essay gives a rather sketchy treatment of the problem.

203. The burden of the essay will be merely to indicate how voluntarism can succeed in academic circles.