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Sentence Variety. Using Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences. Signs of a Good Writer. Variety is the spice of life. No one wants to read and extended portions of text that utilize monotonous sentence structures.
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Sentence Variety Using Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
Signs of a Good Writer Variety is the spice of life. No one wants to read and extended portions of text that utilize monotonous sentence structures. Essays that receive high marks on the SAT, utilize effective and varied sentence structures.
Types of Sentences • Simple—these sentences have one subject and one verb. They convey a single observation. • They built a Sonic two blocks away from my house. One subject (they) and one verb (built) creates a simple sentence.
Compound—these sentences are comprised of what could be two or more simple sentences that have been connected together with a coordinating conjunction. • Coordinating conjunctions include and, but, for, nor, yet, so. These terms indicate that there is a connection between the two observations and that they are of roughly equal importance. • They built a Sonic two blocks from my house, and it is only half a block from my school. The ideas before and after the use of the comma and conjunction, could be written as individual complete sentences which creates a compound sentence.
Complex—these sentences contain two observations, but not observations of equal importance. • They will contain a subordinating conjunction such as although, however, because, before, since, etc. The use of the subordinating conjunction shows that one of the ideas, the one that does NOT start with the conjunction, is not as important as the other observation. • Since they built a Sonic two blocks from my house, I have gained 12 pounds.
Name That Sentence My parent’s tricked me into attending a PSAT prep course this summer. Unless I improve my pacing on the critical reading, I will never get to the last three questions in the section. My vocabulary mastery is quite strong, yet my responses to the sentence completion were not very accurate. I love waking up early to gain SAT test strategies, and I wish we could view even more power point presentations.
Let’s Practice • Use the following patterns to compose a series of sentences on each given topic. Remember that commas appear before your coordinating conjunctions. • Your favorite restaurant: Simple, Simple, Compound, Complex, Simple • Your favorite hobby: Complex, Compound, Simple, Complex, Simple • Your best vacation: Compound, Simple, Complex, Compound, Simple
BLOG Time Once in the computer lab, choose a topic and create a five-seven sentence pattern for your peers to follow as we continue to practice sentence variety in our writing. Find the BLOG topic on Sentence Variety from Mrs. Groters’s website and post your creation. Once everyone has posted, choose two different topics and patterns and complete the assignment by posting an appropriate thread.
