Classification
Classification is one of the ways in which a paragraph or extended piece of writing is developed. In classifying, the writer groups people, things or ideas according to some principle order; in this way he both classifies and explains them.
Classification takes one of the following terms:
kinds
sorts
varieties
- We can divide robots into four basic types
according to their axes of motion.- We can classify robots into four basic types
depending on- Robots fall into four basic types "
- Robots can be divided/classified into four "basic types
Note that some of the above categorizations can use the passive voice or the active voice in their construction:
fall; divide; be divided; classify; be classified.
(The Division of English for Science and Technology,
Chulalongkorn University Language Institute)
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