English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 12

The assignment here is to complete an unfinished paragraph (in the box), which has as its topic sentence, "My husband Roger is a selfish person." Provide the supporting details needed to develop the examples of Roger's selfishness. The first example has been done for you.
A Selfish Person
My husband Roger is a selfish person. For one thing, he refuses to move out of the city, even though it is a bad place to raise the children.
We inherited some money when my parents died, and it might be enough for a down payment on a small house in a nearby town. But Roger says he would miss his buddies in the neighborhood._________________________________________
Also, when we go on vacation, we always go where Roger wants to go.
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Another example of Roger's selfishness is that he always spends any budget money that is left over.____________________________________________________________
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Finally, Roger leaves all the work of caring for the children to me.
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