Students are encouraged to write more than simple sentences; however, often the knowledge for how to construct compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences eludes them.
While it may seem easiest to stick to writing in the simple sentence format, these types of sentences back-to-back produce a choppy and stilted flow to writing. Even though the sentences may be written structurally correct--thus reducing the point deductions for incorrect sentence structure--sticking to only simple sentences destroys the style of the writing.
If you happen to notice during your Revision step of the Writing Process that you are showing some sentence repetition, choppiness, or issues with run-ons, it is time to Revise.
In the links below, you will find help taking your writing beyond simple sentences, while maintaining proper sentence structure for your compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
To begin with, do you know how to identify and write the four types of sentence structures?
As Elizabeth O'Brien writes on her website...
Thank goodness for sentences and sentence structure!
Sentences are nice little packages of words that come together to express complete thoughts.
They make it easy to understand ideas and learn information.
Without sentences, we'd probably all be walking around like a bunch of babbling idiots. :)
On this page, you're going to learn about simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences.
I'm also going to show you how to diagram those things because sentence diagraming is super-duper helpful when it comes to SEEING a sentence's structure.
Give it a try! See if she can teach you anything new in her Free lesson, but if not, at least you know you are on the right track.
YouTube Videos on Sentence Structure
4-types of sentence structures
Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
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