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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

Participle phrase

You can use either present participles, for example ‘shouting’, or past participles, for example ‘shouted’, to form a participle phrase:

James managed to bang his head.

This becomes:

Running through the doorway, James managed to bang his head.

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