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Sentence Variety In your writing
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Published on Nov 30, 2016
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Sentence Variety In your writing
Top 10 methods for creating
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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"
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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.
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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
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7. Omit unneccesary words
Pronouns, linking verbs, and wordy phrases
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8. Change verbs to the-ing form
present participle
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9. Use the word "with"
as and effective connector
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10. Adjective or relative clauses
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Mary Petty
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