Varying Your
Sentences
It is important to vary your sentence structure. If all your
sentences are simple ones consisting of one main clause, the
impression you give will be rather juvenile. You will need
some simple sentences and you can vary their pattern but
you will also need compound sentences (two or more main
clauses) and complex sentences (a mixture of main clauses
and subordinate clauses).
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SIMPLE SENTENCE
As we have already seen, there are a number of variations
you can use with the simple sentence. It does not always
form the same pattern.
Looking at examples
The simple sentence can consist of only two words.
Helen gasped.This follows the accepted grammatical pattern. It has a
subject (Helen) and a finite verb (gasped). The latter, as
required, shows person (third), number (singular) and tense
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