Where can I learn about writing good sentences?
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If your goal is simple sentences, write several to see if they are expressing your thoughts. Namely:
Susan eats apples on Tuesday.
The elephants laugh at the tourists.
Traffic made me run late.
All the above sentences express a simple idea. These sentences are each called an independent clause.
Simple sentences get boring to write and even more boring to read. Imagine a few pages of sentences that have five words or so. So, you can create a compound sentence. Namely:
Susan eats apples on Tuesday and the elephants laugh at the tourists.
There is no real reason why these two are related, but in a story or an essay, you could have made that clear. Maybe Susan is eating her apples AT THE ZOO and the elephants think that is funny.
You can also create complex sentences. A complex sentence contains an independent clause and a dependent clause. The dependent has info in it that connects it directly to the independent clause. Namely:
Susan eats apples on Tuesday because the elephants laugh at the tourists.
In this sentence, there is now a relationship between what Susan does and what the elephants do. We don’t know WHY there is such a relationship, but that is the subject matter for additional sentences.
Here is a good website that can help you with these matters:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
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M$Writing good sentences become a breeze when you are fond of reading. Through reading, you get plenty of good ideas on grammar and word choice. Your selection of words makes the tone good or bad. Good sentences are found in books, newspapers, and magazines. They act as your models for writing good sentences. The more you practice writing good sentences, the more adept you can become in expressing your ideas.
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