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Sentence Variety In your writing

Published on Nov 30, 2016

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Sentence Variety In your writing

Top 10 methods for creating

Descriptive words, for example, can be placed in front of nouns.

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Example

  • Instead of writing three sentences
  • "The problem required a solution. The problem was knotty. The solution had to be immediate."
  • write 1: "The knotty problem required an immediate solution"

1. Rearranging YOur words

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2. Adverbs and Prepositional Phrases

at the front of your sentence
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Another approach is to move adverbs or prepositional phrases to the front of the sentence

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The adverb at the end of this sentence
"He called me yesterday."
could be moved to the front: Yesterday, he called me.

3. combine sentences with a comma and conjunction

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so aka fanboys
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4. Use a Semi-colon or adverbial conjunction

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5. combine sentences by making a list

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6. sentences combined by signal words

subordinating conjunctions

7. Omit unneccesary words

Pronouns, linking verbs, and wordy phrases

8. Change verbs to the-ing form

present participle

9. Use the word "with"

as and effective connector
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10. Adjective or relative clauses

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