Sentences By: Delonte Blakeney Jeremiah Garland

Types of Sentences-Declarative Declarative-States an idea Declare-to state Ex: “Obama may personally think confiscating guns is a great idea, but there’s no prospect that he could get such a policy enacted into law-- and if he did, the Supreme Court’s recent precedents on the Second Amendment make it unlikely the law would stand.”

Types of Sentences-Interrogative Interrogative-Ask a question and ends with a question mark Interrogate - to ask Ex: “So how can you with a straight face make the argument that more guns wills make us safer?”

Types of Sentences-Imperative Imperative-Gives an order or a direction and ends with an exclamation point or period. Similar to emperor. Both give an order. Will begin with a verb most of the time Ex: “Just shut up and hand in your guns.”

Types of Sentences-Exclamatory Exclamatory-Conveys strong emotions and ends with an exclamation mark. Exclaim-Shout out Ex: “She’s not telling the truth!”

Sentence Combining Combined Sentences- The expression of two or more related ideas or pieces of information in a single sentence. Too many short sentences makes writing choppy and disconnected Use sentence variety to combine sentences Ex: “President Obama’s rage about gun massacres, building for years, spilled out Thursday night as he acknowledged his own powerlessness to prevent another tragedy and pleaded with voters to force change themselves.”

Sentence Combining-Subject Subject Combining- two sentences can be combined using the subject of each sentence Ex: “Moira enjoyed watching the lions” “Jon enjoyed watching the lions” “Moira and Jon enjoyed watching the lions”

Subject Combining-Verb Join the two verbs of the two sentences Ex: “Lisa played the game.” “Lisa won a prize.” “Lisa played the game and won a prize”

Sentence Combining-Object Join two sentences using the object of a verb. Ex: “Scott saw the cheetah.” “Scott saw the hyena.” “Scott saw the cheetah and the hyena.”

Subject Combining-Independent Clause Join two independent clauses to form a compound sentence Ex: “The lion waited patiently.” “Its prey kept moving closer” “The lion waited patiently; its prey kept moving closer”

Subject Combining-Subordinate Clause Change one of the sentences into a subordinate clause and create a complex sentence Ex: “We were frightened.” “We thought the lion we saw on safari was hungry.” “We were frightened because we thought the lion we saw on safari was hungry.”

Subject Combining-Phrases ●Combine two sentences by changing one into a phrase ○Prepositional Phrase ■Ex: “My team plays tomorrow.” “We play the Cougars.” ■“My team plays against the cougars tomorrow.” Appositive Phrases Ex: “My team will play against the Cougars.” “They are the only undefeated team in the league.” “My team will play against the Cougars, the only undefeated team in the league.” Participle Phrase Ex: “The Cougars scored quickly.” “The Cougars jumped out to a two-goal lead.” “Scoring quickly, the Cougars jumped out to a two-goal lead.”

Varying Sentences Varying sentence length can make them more interesting and helps to create rhythm. Too many long sentences will be just as bad as too many short sentences. Insert a short sentence to interrupt the flow of too many long sentences. Some long sentences can be broken into two separate sentences. To make variety change the way some sentences start.

Varying Sentences-Starters Noun-Start sentence with noun Ex: “Bicycles are difficult to make Adverb-Start sentence with adverb Ex: “Naturally, bicycles are difficult to make” Participle-Start sentence with a participle Ex: “Having tried to make several bicycles, I know they are very difficult to make” Prepositional Phrase-Start sentence with a prepositional phrase Ex: “For the average person, bicycles are very difficult to make Infinitive Phrase-Start sentence with infinitive phrase Ex: “To win the race is his goal” do the activity

Varying Sentences-Inverting Can vary the sentence beginning by changing subject-verb order. “The bus is here.” “The ship sailed into the bay.” “Here is the bus.” “Into the bay sailed the ship.”