Effective Sentences

Today we are briefly looking at how to create effective sentences.

There are four types of sentence:

1) A simple sentence, which has one main clause.

2) A compound sentence, which has two main clauses.

3) A complex sentence, which has one main clause and one subordinate clause.

4) A compound-complex sentence, which has two main clauses and at least one dependent clause.

Remember:

If you have two ideas of equal importance = use two simple sentences or one compound sentence.

If one idea is less important put it in a dependent clause to form a complex sentence.

Vary your sentence length to show your writing skills

Long sentences are for grouping or combing ideas, listing points, and summarizing or previewing information.

Medium-length sentences are for showing the relationship between ideas.

Short sentences are to emphasize important information.

Select Active or Passive Voice

Active voice = subject, verb, object

“A thief stole my wallet.”                

Subject Verb Object

Passive voice = The object receives the action, and maybe we do not say by who

“My wallet has been stolen (by a thief).”

  Subject         Verb            Object

Emphasize Key Thoughts by

Amplifying them through description

Putting them at the beginning or at the end of the sentence

Making them the subject of the sentence

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