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Variety

Variety . Section 26. A Whole List Of Do’s. To inject variety into your writing: Vary the grammatical form of your sentences Use some simple, some compound, some complex, and some compound-complex Vary the rhetorical form of sentences

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Variety

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  1. Variety Section 26

  2. A Whole List Of Do’s • To inject variety into your writing: • Vary the grammatical form of your sentences • Use some simple, some compound, some complex, and some compound-complex • Vary the rhetorical form of sentences • Use some declarative, some imperative, some interrogative, and some exclamatory • In analysis, don’t use imperative or exclamatory • Vary the use of suspense • Use both loose (completes main thought near the beginning) and periodic (completes main thought near the end) sentences

  3. A Whole List Of Do’s • Let’s continue with the long list of things you should do to your writing: • Vary sentence length • Use short, medium, and long, (and maybe sometimes very long), sentences • Vary the beginnings of some of your sentences • Try beginning with: • An adverb • Or an adjective • Even perhaps a participle • Maybe a prepositional phrase • Even a participial phrase • Or infinitive phrase • You could even try an adverb clause

  4. As Gary Provost Puts It • “This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”

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