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E12: Sentence Structure
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E12: Effective Sentences
Combining Sentences
Avoid monotonous and wasteful sentence structure. Combine sentence to enhance flow and understsnding.
Combining Sentences
Examples
Examples
Regular cast members and understudies rehearse and show up for every performance.
Regular cast members receive most of the glory, but understudies also work hard.
Actors in plays have understudies. Understudies show up for every performance.
Actors in plays have understudies, and they show up to every performance.
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Combine the following sentences into one compound sentence.
Juan's first choice for college is a local school. Tom's last choice for college is a local school
Rita's mother thinks highly of a college nearby. She would understand another choice by Rita.
Vary Sentences
Vary sentence openings, structures, and lengths. Variety keeps readers engaged.
Vary Sentences
Examples
Ulysses S. Grant died on July 23, 1885, less than a month after he completed his memoirs.
On July 23, 1885, after he completed his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant died.
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Rewrite each sentence chagning the opening structure.
Girls officially played little league baseball, starting in 1975.
President Gerald Ford signed legislation on December 26, 1974, to open the little league girls program.
Eliminate Wordiness
Achieve clarity in your writing.
Eliminate Wordiness
Examples: Padding
Walt Whitman created a new type of poetic verse, in which he rejected traditional poetic conventions of rhyme and meter and used instead the natural rhythms of spoken English, which he claimed, has its own rhythm.
Walt Whitman created a new type of verse, free verse, which uses the natural rhythms of spoken English
Examples: Repetition
The monetary unit of the nation of Japan is the yen, which is currently at this time worth the order of approximatley 82 yen to 1 United States dollar.
The monetary unit of Japan is the yen, which is currently worth approximatley 82 yen to 1 United States dollar.
Examples: Repetition
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Revise the sentence.
Irish immigration from Ireland to the United States increased during the Irish potato famine, which occured during the 1840's, when the potato crops in Ireland failed, which caused many Irish people to die because they starved to death, and the others left Ireland as a result of the potato famine.
Removing Choppy Sentences
Combine short sentences to help with flow.
Removing Choppy Sentences
Examples
The bears lumbered near our campsite. The bears were Grizzleys. The bears lumbered sluggishly.
The grizzly bears lumbered sluggishly near our campsite.
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Combine the following to create one sentence.
Henry James wrote about relationships among people. Henry James was a novelist. The people he wrote about were mostly British and American.