This entry was created in response to a student writing:
In this essay, it will first point out…
The re-usable link is https://ske.li/in_this_essay_i, and it looks a bit like this:
![](http://bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/in-this-essay.jpg)
Clearly this pattern isn’t just confined to ‘essays’. Here’s a link which doesn’t just include the word ‘essay’ https://ske.li/in_this__i_will – it looks like this:
![](http://bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/in-this-I-will.jpg)
Another possibility would be this link https://ske.li/this_essay_i, which looks like this:
![](http://bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/this-essay-i.jpg)
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
cases have been increasing the last ten years
The re-usable link is https://ske.li/prep_last_x_years and it looks like this:
![](http://bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/last-few-years.jpg)
This link was created in response to a student writing
grammar takes an important place in language learning
The link showing the use of important place is https://ske.li/important_place and looks like this:
![](http://bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/important-place-1.jpg)
This usage is far rarer than play an important role, however; the link for important role is https://ske.li/important_n and looks like this:
![](http://bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/important-role.jpg)
We could include part as well as role in the lines, as here https://ske.li/partrole:
![](http://bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/rolepart.jpg)
Or if you wanted to show other adjectives that occur in this phrase, this link to a frequency list (play/have a/an Adj role/part) could be useful https://ske.li/play_adj_role. It looks like this:
![](http://bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/play-role-freq.jpg)