{"id":2124,"date":"2016-09-08T18:38:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/08\/writing-tip-7-seek-sentence-variety\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T13:45:34","slug":"writing-tip-7-seek-sentence-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/2016\/09\/08\/writing-tip-7-seek-sentence-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Tip: Why seek sentence variety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SHORT sentence can break up a series of LONG sentences, but how many kinds of long sentences are there?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A COMPOUND sentence joins two simple sentences together with a conjunction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I love writing, and you do too. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other COMPLEX sentences may include two things that happen together or because of the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>While I was writing, dinner burned on the stove.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If I had more time, I would sit down and write.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Whenever my husband watches his favorite show, I sneak in some writing time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the all-faithful LIST.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I love to write short stories, essays, and blog posts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I love to write short stories about my adventures in Mongolia, essays with cross-cultural themes, and blog posts which describe the amazing things I&#8217;m learning day by day.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"st-callout blue center\" style=\"width:75%;\" >\n<div class=\"inside\"> We\u00a0should be &#8220;on the hunt&#8221; for complex sentences that break out of &#8220;normal&#8221; syntax to really hold some punch!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/writing-tips\/\">Writing Tips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continue Moduke 4, Crafting: <a href=\"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/2016\/11\/16\/writing-tip-9-complex-sentences\/\">study of complex sentences<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SHORT sentence can break up a series of LONG sentences, but how many kinds of long sentences are there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}