Varying Sentence Structures

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Make Your Writing

More Interesting!

Varying sentence

structures


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Vary your Sentence

Openings If you start too many sentences with the

same word, especially The, It, This, or

I, guess what will happen?

It was such a coincidence to

meet Molly at the cinema.


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How about these: When I sat down at the cinema, I realised that,

coincidentally, I was sitting next to Molly. Molly and I, without any advance planning, ended upsitting next to each other at the cinema. Unbelievable, I know, but Molly and I ended up sittingright next to each other at the cinema. At the crowded cinema, packed with 300 people, Mollyand I ended up, by sheer coincidence, sitting right nextto each other. I have known many coincidences in my life, but nonemore surprising than finding myself sitting next to

Molly at the cinema. How extraordinary it was to find that I was sittingright next to Molly at the cinema!


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Sentences with the samerhythm and length can be

very monotonous

We went to Chester Zoo. We went to look atthe bats. It was dark in the Bat Cave. Thebats were beautiful. Some bats were flyingaround our heads. Some bats were sleepingupside down. Bethany was scared at first.Later, she bought a cuddly bat.


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Use connectives If your sentences are short and therhythm does not work, try joiningsentences, clauses and phrases with

connectives: and, but, so, or, for, yet, however, in spite of,

etc.. Add imagery (similes, metaphors),

adjectives, adverbs, adventurousvocabulary


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Use short and long

sentences. Class Six visited Chester Zoo last summer tolook at the bats. In the darkness of the Bat Cave

they met a variety of beautiful nocturnalcreatures, some fluttering soundlessly aroundtheir ears and others resting upside-down in thedarkest corners. Bethany had been worried, but,after learning more and seeing the bats in theirhome, she became very fond of them. She laterleft the zoo clutching a cuddly toy bat.


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Use different types of

sentence. Simple sentences:

Alex enjoyed going tothe show with you. Henry VIII is famous

for having had sixwives.

Compoundsentences:

Henry VIII is famousfor having had sixwives andfor havingtwo of them beheaded.


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Complex Sentences In his quest for an heir to the throne,

Henry VIII married six differentwomen, two of whom he divorced, twohe had beheaded, one died and onesurvived.


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Add an extra clause to

give more information Jenny finally made it to the party. Jenny, who had spent forty-five minutes waiting for ataxi, finally made it to the party. Six children took part in the dance. Six children, each wearing a mask of their own design,took part in the dance. Drop in your extra clause between two

commas- make a comma sandwich


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Recap: Vary sentence openings Join short sentences, phrases and clauses

with connectives Use sentences of different lengths

Mix different types of sentence- simple,compoundand complex

Add a clause- make a comma sandwich

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