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Enhancing Your Writing with Sentence Variety

Discover the importance of sentence variety in writing to engage readers, add style, and improve your skills. Learn six sassy sentence types and practice creating lively and diverse sentences to make your writing more captivating.

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Enhancing Your Writing with Sentence Variety

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  1. Six Sassy Sentences (tips for adding variety to boring sentences)

  2. Your Writing Topic Today • You may choose one of the pictures in the PowerPoint to write about today. You need to use the rules and suggestions here to create a very good introductory paragraph.

  3. Why use variety in your sentences? • Sentence variety is necessary for a number of reasons: * Sentence variety makes your writing more interesting to read! • * Sentence variety adds style to your writing! • * Sentence variety will help develop your writing skills!

  4. Six Sassy Sentence types: 1. Two-adjective beginnings 2. “-ing” at beginning or end 3. “-ly” beginnings 4. Informative interrupters (appositives) 5. Balanced sentences 6. Dependent clauses

  5. 1. Two-Adjective Beginnings: • Tall, handsome lifeguards flirt wildly with the pretty girls. • Rickety and dilapidated, the old schoolhouse didn’t stand a chance in an earthquake.

  6. Now you try:

  7. 2. “-ing” at beginning • Running like the wind, Forrest Gump made national headline news. • Saving the best for last, Lisa finally ate her Reese’s peanut butter cup.

  8. Now you try:

  9. “-ing” at end • He trudged along the hot desert for days, wishing he had brought more water. • Sandy gave the homeless man all the money she had, hoping that her small act of kindness might bring him some comfort.

  10. Now you try:

  11. 3. “-ly” at beginning • Cheerfully, she answered the phone for her mother. • Slowly opening the door, the servant tried not to wake his master.

  12. Now you try:

  13. 4. Informative Interrupters • The fish, a slimy mass of flesh, felt the alligator’s giant teeth sink into him as he struggled to swim away. • The child, face covered with chocolate doughnut, asked his mother if he could have some milk.

  14. Now you try:

  15. 5. Balanced Sentences • He runs onto the baseball field, spins around second base, and looks back at the academy. • Choosing a Christmas tree, putting up Christmas lights, and baking Christmas cookies are all included in my December traditions.

  16. Now you try:

  17. 6. Dependent Clauses • Because it rained, the garden party was postponed. • Since the road construction is complete, Jim can make it home in only ten minutes.

  18. Now you try:

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