Sentence Variety

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Sentence Variety
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What is a sentence?

• In the shop there were two boys trying to avoid
  the shopkeepers eye.
• In the shop
• There were two boys
• Two boys trying to catch the shop keepers eye

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What is a sentence?

• In the shop there were two boys trying to avoid
  the shopkeepers eye. Yes
• In the shop
• There were two boys
• Two boys trying to catch the shop keepers eye

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What is a sentence?

• In the shop there were two boys trying to avoid
  the shopkeepers eye. Yes
• In the shop. No but
• There were two boys
• Two boys trying to catch the shop keepers eye

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What is a sentence?

• In the shop there were two boys trying to avoid
  the shopkeepers eye.
• In the shop
• There were two boys. Yes
• Two boys trying to catch the shop keepers eye

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What is a sentence?

• In the shop there were two boys trying to avoid
  the shopkeepers eye.
• In the shop
• There were two boys
• Two boys trying to catch the shop keepers eye No

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Sentence Length sentences can be different
lengths, to create different effects

• Short sentences can help build up suspense
• The sky was black. The air was still. Footsteps
  crunched on the drive.
• Longer sentences can help to explain complicated
  ideas
• Bob Geldof, the most famous voice in the campaign
  for an end to world poverty, started out as the
  lead singer of the Boomtown Rats.

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Complex sentences embedded clauses

• Jordan college was the grandest and richest of
  all the colleges in Oxford. The buildings, which
  were grouped around three irregular quadrangles ,
  dated from every period from the Middle Ages to
  the mid-eighteenth century. It had never been
  planned It had grown piecemeal, with past
  overlapping at every spot, and the final effect
  was one of jumbled and squalid grandeur.
• From Pullmans Northern Lights

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Complex sentences embedded clauses

• Jordan college was the grandest and richest of
  all the colleges in Oxford. The buildings, which
  were grouped around three irregular quadrangles ,
  dated from every period from the Middle Ages to
  the mid-eighteenth century. It had never been
  planned It had grown piecemeal, with past
  overlapping at every spot, and the final effect
  was one of jumbled and squalid grandeur.
• From Pullmans Northern Lights

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Complex sentences embedded clauses

• Jordan college was the grandest and richest of
  all the colleges in Oxford. The buildings, which
  were grouped around three irregular quadrangles ,
  dated from every period from the Middle Ages to
  the mid-eighteenth century. It had never been
  planned It had grown piecemeal, with past
  overlapping at every spot, and the final effect
  was one of jumbled and squalid grandeur.
• From Pullmans Northern Lights

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Complex sentences wh clauses

• The foolish soldier,,tripped up.
• My Uncle Vernon,,is rich.
• That glass of cola,, must now be flat.
• This new album,,is rubbish.
• Your computer, , has just made an odd bleeping
  sound.

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Complex sentences - adverbials

• Although, Mrs Taylor
• After, the cat
• Despite, the dolphin
• Whenever, I