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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

Flowing from one sentence to the next

Over a few sentences, a few things can happen. You can talk about one topic the entire time and gradually give the reader more and more information. Or, you can talk about one topic and then contrast it or compare it with another topic.

Making the transition from one sentence to another is important. Here are some ways you can flow from one sentence to the next, depending on what you’re trying to do.

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