Sentence Structure Starters

1. Sentence Structure Starters

2. List 2. Short Sentence 3. Repetition 4. Rhetorical Question 5. Exclamation 6. Parenthesis 7. Ellipsis 8. Inverted Commas Identify the sentence structure techniques in the passage • Wouldn't it be weird if Delia Smith was over? • Imagine if Delia Smith had a TV series that bombed! Imagine if the supermarkets were all braced for the 2008 “Delia effect” - lines of bottled limejuice and sweet potatoes at the ready - and it ... never came! Imagine if everyone ignored her recommendations for “dear” little omelette pans - and just carried on buying whatever was knocking around in Tesco for under a fiver, instead! • Yes, that's right - it would be a revolution. Myself, I think it's possible. After all, no one can stay on top for ever. • For starters, it's not like it's 1982, when Delia was - fact- the only person in Britain who knew how to make shortcrust pastry. These days there are dozens of them: Olivers, Lawsons, Fearnley-Whittingstalls, Ramsays, Blumenthals.

3. Answers Techniques: Examples: “Olivers...Blumenthals “ “Myself, I...possible.” “Imagine if...” “Wouldn't it be weird if Delia Smith was over?” “Imagine if...that bombed!” “ - lines of... at the ready – “ “and it ... never came!” ‘“dear” little omelette pans’ • 1. list: • 2. short sentence: • 3. repetition: • 4. rhetorical question: • 5. exclamation: • 6. parenthesis: • 7. ellipsis • 8. inverted commas

4. Identify the sentence structure techniques in the passage The door of the family flat is open and they are asked in though they have never met. His Dad weeps silently. The room is full of people wearing T-shirts bearing the legend "Etem Celebi 1990-2007". Special Arsenal shirts are made and displayed. The local school closes for a day. Rumours fly. Everyone knows who did it: he's on the run. But on the estate no one wants to say. It's their way. TV crews hand out notes. Asking for what? Some insights from traumatised teenagers?Hard boys, it would appear, grieve just like the rest of us. Why then have we turned these people into so many varieties of "other"? We call them chavs, hoodies, gangstas, dealers, pram-faces, youth, underclass. Why are they so different from us? • List 2. Short Sentence 3. Rhetorical Question 4. Parenthesis 5. Inverted Commas 6. Colon

5. Answers Techniques: Examples: “chavs…youth, underclass” “Rumours fly.” “Why are they so different from us?” “, it would appear,” ‘many varieties of "other"?’ “Everyone knows who did it: he's on the run” • 1. list: • 2. short sentence: • 3. rhetorical question: • 4. parenthesis: • 5. inverted commas • 6. colon

6. Identify the sentence structure techniques in the passage Whatever happened to the heroes? The Western has ridden off into the sunset. First of all, let us not fool ourselves: there may be three major westerns, retro-westerns or quasi-westerns just about to arrive in cinemas, but the true western - the western as a thriving movie genre - is to all intents and purposes deader than Billy the Kid, Jesse James and, John Ford put together. Whenever a Silverado, a Dances With Wolves, an Unforgiven or a 3:10 to Yuma gallops screenwards with Stetsons flying and six-guns ablaze, critics will inevitably speculate on whether the western is primed for a comeback. It isn't. It's just the last roundup. • List 2. Short Sentence 3. Rhetorical Question 4. Parenthesis 5. Colon

7. Answers Techniques: Examples: “a Silverado…Yuma” “It isn't.” “Whatever …heroes? “- the western…genre –” “fool ourselves: there may be three“ • 1. list: • 2. short sentence: • 3. rhetorical question: • 4. parenthesis: • 5. colon

8. Identify the sentence structure techniques in the passage You can ask around Los Angeles - around the smoggy poolsides, the oak and Formica rumpus rooms, thesqueaky-clean bars, of damaging gossip about Steven Spielberg, and come away sorely disappointed. Thereisn't any. No, he does not 'do' 10 grand's worth of cocaine a day. No, he does not consort with heavily set youngmen. In the capital of ambition, trivia and back-stabbing you hear only mild or neutral things about Spielberg, spicedwith many examples of his generosity Spielberg, it appears, is a pretty regular guy. Apart from his genius, his technique, his energy, his millions, hisburgeoning empire, he sometimes seems almost ordinary. • List 2. Short Sentence 3. Repetition 4. Parenthesis 5. Inverted Commas 6. Dash

9. Answers Techniques: Examples: “his genius... empire“ “These isn’t any.” “No, he does not...” “,it appears,” “He does not ‘do’” “You can ask around Los Angeles - around the smoggy poolsides” • 1. list: • 2. short sentence: • 3. repetition: • 4. parenthesis: • 5. inverted commas: • 6. dash:

10. Identify the sentence structure techniques in the passage • The virtual removal from the painful process of payment has a lot to answer for. Given the ease of a couple of clicks, it hardly feels like spending. No standing in a queue and giving your conscience the chance to get the better of you here. What’s more, by the time the packages actually arrive – all nice and pretty and wrapped up like presents – they seem almost free. Shoppers like me suffer “payment lobotomy”, erasing the minor detail of money from our memories. • One friend puts on each outfit she has ordered, then practises walking into her bedroom as if she’s greeting people in a bar before deciding what to keep. This process would surely be difficult in a crowded changing room, not without security being called, at least. In her own home, though, security aren’t there, it’s just her and her pretty boxes, having totally forgotten that brief moment in which she typed her credit-card details. Nothing – not the size-eight teenager with smelly feet in the next changing room, the irritating assistant who tries to coerce you into high-waisted tartan trousers, nor the weird mirror that makes you look like Jabba the Hutt– can ruin that moment. Until the bank manager calls. 1. list 2. short sentence 3. parenthesis 4. inverted comma

11. Answers Techniques: Examples: “not the size...the Hutt“ “Until the bank manager calls.” “– all nice and pretty and wrapped up like presents – “ suffer from ‘payment lobotomy’” • 1. list: • 2. short sentence: • 3. parenthesis: • 4. inverted commas: