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Writing well at the sentence level

Combining short and long sentences

Modifiers

Adjectival modifiers

Adjectival clause

Adverbial modifiers

Adverbial clause

Types of phrases

Participle phrase

Prepositional phrase

Absolute phrase

Infinitive phrase

Flowing from one sentence to the next

Contrast

Comparison

Summarise

Emphasise

Addition

Cause and effect – leading to a conclusion

Examples

Sense of time

Sense of position or direction

Sentence fragments

Use of the dash

Absolute phrase

Absolute phrases contain a noun or a pronoun followed by a participle, and can be used to set the scene and lead into the rest of the sentence:

Jack ran up the hill.

This becomes:

His chores finished, Jack run up the hill.

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