Sentences: Types and Style

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Sentences Types and Style
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Simple, Compound, Complex

• Simple one independent clause with no
  subordinate clauses
• Without music, life would be a mistake.
• Compound two independent clauses using a
  conjunction
• One arrow is easily broken, but you cant break
  a bundle of ten.
• Complex Sentence a complex sentence is one
  independent clause with one or more subordinate
  clauses
• If you scatter thorns, dont go barefoot.

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Declarative sentences

• These sentences make a statement, state the facts
  or declare something (go figure)
• Olympia is the capital of Washington.
• She decided to attend Harvard.
• He prefers classic rock, not classical music.

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Hortative Sentences

• A sentence that extorts, advises or calls to
  action.
• It would be best if you two worked toward your
  goals together.
• Vote in todays election.
• It would be in your best interest to get out of
  my way.

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Periodic Sentences

• Periodic A sentence whose main clause is
  withheld until the end.
• To that would assembly of sovereign states, the
  United Nations, our best hope in an age where the
  instruments of war have far outpaced the
  instruments of peace, we renew our pledge.

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Cumulative Sentences

• A sentence that completes the main idea in the
  beginning of the sentence, and then builds and
  adds on from there.
• But neither can two great and powerful groups of
  nations take comfort from our present course
  both sides overburdened by the cost of modern
  weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady
  spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to
  alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays
  the hand of mankinds final war.

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Parallelism

• Similarity of structure in a pair or series of
  related words, phrases, or clauses
• A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an
  exclamation point.
• This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but
  to be hurled with great force.
• In matters of principle, stand like a rock in
  matters of taste, swim with the current.
• Error In my high school, boys are either jocks,
  preppies, or study constantly.

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Antithesis

• Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a
  balanced or parallel construction
• We shall support any friend, oppose any foe.