Rambling Sentences
How do I find and fix rambling sentences?
What is a rambling sentence?
Can I ever use rambling sentences?
- Rambling Sentence: an exceedingly long sentence that contains multiple independent clauses connected by conjunctions.
- Example: I went to the homecoming game, and I saw the Redbirds win, but the seniors won homecoming week again because they have the most people working on the float, and the homecoming dance is going to be tomorrow.
- You can use rambling sentences in your writing if it for a rhetorical purpose.
- Use in dialogue and inner thought
- Creates strong emotions
- Foreshadowing events
- How to find rambling sentences:
- Read it out loud
- Count the number of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
- How to fix rambling sentences once you find them:
- Take the coordinating conjunctions at the ending of a complete thought and replace them with periods.
- Create compound sentences.