Analyze this lead sentence. in paris on friday, journalist stewart manning was ordered to pay an unspecified amount in damages for an article he wrote on alain badiou. 1. journalist stewart manning who? 2. ordered to pay an unspecified amount in damages where? 3. for an article he wrote on alain badiou why? 4. friday what? 5. paris when?

Who?

1. journalist Stewart Manning

What?

2. ordered to pay an unspecified amount in damages

Why?

3. for an article he wrote on Alain Badiou

When?

4. Friday

Where?

5. Paris

Explanation:

Who, what, why, when and where are questions often refer to as the Five Ws, whose answers are considered basic in information gathering when writing or doing research.

They are applied to collect data about a narrative or subject. Furthermore, many writers only consider a story to be complete if all five of the Ws have been answered. In this example, they are all answered in the same sentence.  Stewart Manning is who the story is about. What happens to him is that he´s ordered to pay an unspecified amount in damages. The reason is that he wrote an article on Alain Badiou. Friday in Paris refers to the when and where.

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