Almost every major city in the world has a zoo. humans have kept and enjoyed animals since the prehistoric times. ancient
greeks and romans kept small zoos. over the past fifty years, zoos have changed remarkably. today zoos provide the animals
with larger and more natural habitats.

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.