Tham khảo tài liệu 'forming comparisions 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 19 Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your Sentences Jn This Chapter Creating interesting sentence structures Combining sentences by subordinating Reversing standard order Examining repetition and awkward wording s I write this the rain beats down on my window. How glad I am not to be outside Smiling I type away dry and cozy. Compare the above paragraph to the next paragraph I am writing. The rain beats down on my window. I am glad that I am not outside. I am smiling. I type away. I am dry and cozy. Okay admit it. The first version is better. Why Because variety is not only the spice of life but the spice of writing as well. In this chapter you practice adding variety to your sentences by altering the underlying structure and combining ideas. You also get some scissor practice by cutting repetitive or awkward expressions. Beginning with a Bang Adding Introductory Elements The spine of most English sentences is subject-verb Mary walks Oliver opens and so forth. Most sentences also have some sort of completion what grammarians call a complement or an object Mary walks the dog Oliver opens the peanut butter. Even when you throw in some descriptions this basic skeleton is boring if it s the only structure you ever use. The easiest and most effective way to change the basic pattern is to add an introductory element which is italicized in the following examples Sticking her finger in the jar Agnes curdled the peanut butter. The introductory verb form tells something Agnes did. Despite the new polish on her nails Agnes was willing to eat without a fork. The introductory phrase gives information about Agnes s willingness to get down and dirty with the peanut butter. When she was full Agnes closed the jar. The introductory statement has a subject and a verb she was and in grammar terms is a clause. Once again you get more information about Agnes. 244 Part V Writing with Style__ As always in grammar you don
