Vary Your Sentence Structure: Part 1

1. Welcome: Hello, My name is Sophia and I'm a writer and writing instructor. Welcome to the brightest technique masterclass, a multi-part series where you're really learn how to hone your style. This module, how to vary your sentence structure. Part one, we'll discuss the four types of sentences. Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex from a writer's perspective. Now the sentence types may be familiar to you. In this course, we're going to go beyond the conventional grammar lesson, as well as looking at how to structure and punctuate each sentence type correctly. We'll explore how you can use specific sentence types to create particular effects on the reader. Workbook is provided in the course description. And you've got to practice not only writing individual sentences, but also whole paragraphs using a particular sentence structure. This will really help you get conscious of which sentence types you're using. And when you can go integrator command if you're writing style. I know even as an experienced writer, I got a lot from doing the exercises. And I hope you'll get as much out of doing this course as I have out of writing it. 2. What is a Sentence (Simple Sentences): To have a sentence, we need to have a subject and a verb. A subject is a person, place, or thing that's doing an action is often a noun. It can also be a pronoun or a phrase containing a noun and other words associated with it. The subject usually comes before. A verb is an action, a state, or a state of being. And verbs change tense depending on the time period in which the action or state of being a cat. The most basic form of a sentence consists of only two words, for example, than eight here, and it's the subject or the person doing the action. And eight is the verb, the action that the subject is doing. However, this sentence, Ben eight, is not exactly exciting and it doesn't tell you an awful lot of information. So usually we have other things in a sentence besides the subject and the verb. Usually even in a simple sentence, something follows the verb. This is often a second noun. For example, in the sentence, Ben ate lunch. The second noun, lunch, which follows the verb, is the object. In a sentence, the object is the person, place, or thing that's acted upon by the subject. In this case, lunches acted upon by Ben who waited. However, it's not always a noun that follows a verb in a simple sentence. There's lots of other things that can follow a verb to. For example, then eight quickly. Here we have the subject and the verb plus the adverb quickly than eight to survive. In this case, we've got the subject and verb followed by an infinitive to survive. However, these two examples are still simple sentences because they only contain one subject and one verb. Now these sentences might be very basic and easy to construct. But when you get to writing a text with much longer sentences and more elaborate sentences, short simple sentences will be really useful to break up the complexities and draw the reader's attention to key points. Have a look at how the short simple sentence works in this paragraph from a job application cover letter, for example. The paragraph reads, I am highly experienced having taught English to children abroad and in the UK for over 20 years, I would bring to the possession a wealth of teaching strategies. I've taught from all levels, from beginning to advanced. And my cater to a range of learning styles, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. This case, the simple sentence I'm highly experienced, introduces the main idea of the paragraph in a clear and concise manner. In the context of a longer sentences that follow its brevity draws the reader's attention. 3. Exercise 1: Simple Sentences: Before we look at longer and more complicated sentences, Let's do an exercise to consolidate what we've looked at so far. Now's a good time to look at exercise one. It'll give you practice identifying the subject and verb and simple sentences. You've got the opportunity to write your own simple sentence. In a second. I'm going to screenshot the document with you. But a copy of the document has been provided along with the course for you to complete. Let's take a look. In exercise one part a questions one-to-five. You need to identify the subject and verb of each sentence. Let's do the first one together. The sentence here is some run on the subject. The person doing the running is sad. Then the verb, the action or state of being that's taking place is run. Then in part a, you've got five more questions here, which I'll leave to you to do on your own. Now, in part b, you got to write your own simple sentence and then identify the subject and the verb. So a simple sentence, kid bay. I went to the park. The subject would be I, That's the person going. And then went, is the bulb. Now, have a go at creating your own simple sentence with a single subject and verb. Remember to save your work as you go because there'll be an opportunity to share your answers. And some of the extended writing passages will do later in the course with a community. 4. Compound Sentences: When simple sentences I used a form part of a longer compounds or complex sentence. The often referred to as main clauses are independent clauses. Even though simple sentences can be very emphatic, entire text written out two simple sentences would get booming. So we need other sentence types to increase the pace, create grammatical variety, and connect ideas to each other. Compound sentences of one such sentence type. They can consist of two simple sentences joined together. For example, it was cold, I went home is a pair of simple sentences. To create a compound sentence, we join them together. It was cold. And I went home. To join the two simple sentences together into a compound sentence, we need to use the coordinating conjunction in the example of the coordinating conjunction is. And. However, there are seven coordinating conjunctions in English. And you can remember these conjunctions using women dynamic FANBOYS. Fanboys stands for, for and, nor, but, or yet. So. Let's have a look at how some of these conjunctions work in sentences. Festival for I went to the park for it was sunny and I ate rice and he ate pasta. No, he would not sleep, nor would he breast. But I am hungry, but it is not dinner time yet. Or we could go to the park or we could go to the pool. That he was tired, yet he could not sleep. He revised so he could get good marks on the test. Now, you'll notice that a few of these conjunctions for yet, and to an extent nor sounds a little bit old fashioned, especially when they used to join two main clauses together like this. For the purposes of most modern writing, you want to concentrate on, but or unsafe. Why as a writer, would you use compound sentences? Well, we use compound sentences to create longer sentences, increase the pace of attacks and draw connections between ideas. For example, this text is created entirely from simple sentences. I wanted to visit the park. It was pouring. I waited for an hour. This done. The sun started shining. I stroll to the park. Trees towered by the gate. Flowers bloomed in the borders. The beauty amazed me. Now, the way this is written is really boring. This is partly because the structure of every sentence is the same. It's also because full stops tend to indicate to the reader that they should take a pause. So the fact that every sentence is short makes the tax sound quite abrupt and slows down the pace at which you read it. We can create some variety flow and speed by joining some of the sentences together using coordinating conjunctions to create compounds, to create compound sentences. For example, I wanted to visit the park, but it was pouring. I waited for an hour, the sun started shining, so I strove to the park. Tree is towered by the gates and flowers bloomed and the borders. The beauty amazed me. Now, this version is somewhat more interesting, chromatically speaking, because there were fewer full stops in the second example, the pace is somewhat faster. The coordinating conjunctions also help to show relationships between ideas. If I was prevented from going to the park because it was raining. So it tells us that I went to the park because the sun was shining. However, it's important to be careful not to use too many coordinating conjunctions in one sentence. We could, technically speaking, the whole text in one sentence using coordinating conjunctions. I wanted to visit the park, but it was pouring, So I waited for an hour and the sun started shining. So I strove to the park. Tree is towered by the gate. I'm flowers bloomed in the borders and the beauty amaze me. I'm out of breath. That's part of the problem with using Team and the coordinating conjunctions in one sentence. We don't have anywhere to pause anywhere to breathe. Side. The sentence is difficult to follow because it makes you sound quite hurried when you read it. And there's just too many ideas here, all in one, all in one breath. So just as a rule of thumb, one or on occasion to coordinating conjunctions is enough for each sentence. Now, just before we try an activity, I want to make a few comments about commas. Some people put a comma before the coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence. For example, the sun started shining comma, I stroll to the park. Now, I think whether you do this or not depends in part on wherever in the world you come from. I've noticed quite a lot of grammar texts from the USA tell people to have a comma in the middle of a compound sentence, at least under some circumstances. However, in the UK where I guess you can tell from my accent is where I'm from. We're generally not taught to use this comma except where needed for clarity. For example, in a sentence that's got multiple clauses. So more than one rule of thumb. Stylistically, as the comments tend to cause the reader to take a little pause, lots of applause then a full stop, but it's still a pause. If you want a sentence it to read like this, the sun started shining. I strove to the park, use a comma. But if you want the sentence to read like this, the sun's light is shining. So a stroke to the park with no breath in the middle, then you don't use a comma. 5. Exercise 2: Compound Sentences: Now we've looked a little at compound sentences. It's a good time to dive into exercise. In this exercise, you'll get a chance to join some simple sentences together using coordinating conjunctions. You'll get to write a short tax to using simple and compound sentences to look at exercise. Let's go through the first example together. Now the instruction hair as to join parts of sentences together using coordinating conjunctions. And the coordinating conjunctions we're going to use and, but, or and. So. If we look at the first example, my sister and I could go to the beach, we could go to the pool. We've got two simple sentences. Hair. What I can do is copy and paste this here. My sister, an ICU go to the beach and then I add a coordinating conjunction. And in this sense, in this case, all make sense. So I add, or we could go to the pool. That's a few more examples here for you to do in your own time. Now, part b. In part b, it using again the coordinating conjunctions and, but, or and psi. To write full sentences. Remember you use these conjunctions between two simple sentences. Say that's a half a guy. If we're going to use rads, some tea vein. Now we've got, we've got a simple sentence. Hey, I read a book, Thoughts a sentence in its own right, with a subject I. And if Brad, and then some watch TV likewise has a subject and a verb watch. They're both sentences, simple sentences joined them together with the conjunction. And then for T 34, you'd look at the other conjunctions, say sentence with box, a, sentence with all in a sentence with psi, and so on. In Part C, You've got the opportunity to unity in six or seven sentences to describe a time when you went for a day trip. So I, this is your first little bit of extended writing is probably going to be about two paragraphs loan. You're asked to restrict yourself to only simple and compound sentence structures. You might find that this makes your writing style seem quite basic. But honestly, when I write the model for the US and you can, if you need to, you can refer back to that paragraph I wrote about going out to the park. I put it in the previous video. I've really learned a lot just by restricting my style and writing a paragraph in that way. Sorry, I think you'll find that useful. Remember to save your work as you go. Take photos if you're working on paper because they're being offered changes to shovel your answers and your extended piece of writing with the community. 7. Exercise 3: How to Simplify Compound Sentences: In this exercise, you've got the chance to get rid of some of the repetitive words from compound sentences. Sorry to look at the first example together, we've got Jerry likes apples, but Joe does not like there's no eat oranges rather. We have a problem. Potentially had Joe as repeated. You've got it By before the coordinating conjunction and immediately after. Usually when you've got that repetition and the t halts at the sentence, you can get rid of the second appearance of the word or words. Likes apples, but we got rid of the second die. Eat our interests. You've got some more to do here. But one of them, you can't remove any words from the two halves of the sentence, the T different. Say here you've got a little space to write the trick question number is, for example, tea or wherever you think it is. 8. Complex Sentences: Like a simple sentence, complex sentences have a single main clause. However, in addition to this, they have a subordinate clause. Subordinate clauses always start with a subordinating conjunction. There were lots of subordinating conjunctions in English more than we could possibly go through here. But they do divide and seven main categories. Let's take a look. The common categories, subordinating conjunctions are time, for example, after a CNS. Now that conjunctions or place, where or wherever, for example, conjunctions of manner, how, as f, as though comparison. Whereas rather than whatever reason. Because sense as condition if in case unless concession. Though. Although, even though now a lot of the reasons why we might use subordinate clauses in a piece of writing are implied by these categories of subordinating conjunction. Subordinate clauses can add extra information to a sentence. For example, where, when or how something has taken place. They also help to add logic to a description or argument. For example, by giving reasons for a point made in the main clause or by drawing comparison with something mentioned in the main clause. Let's take a look at some examples of the subordinate clauses and conjunctions and action. Here's a compound sentence with a subordinate clause. I'll get changed as soon as I get home. Now, notice here that the subordinate fluids is at the end of the sentence. The subordinating conjunction is as seen us, and the subordinate clause, which like all subordinate clauses, starts with a conjunction, is as soon as I get home. The subordinate clause is informative and tells us. That. Tells us when you'll get changed. Because that's extra information. However, it's important to note that it is indeed extra information that the subordinate clause by clause subordinate clauses cannot function as an independent sentence. If we look at the two halves of the sentence, I'll get changed. The main clause. And as soon as I get home, the subordinate clause, you can see that I will get changed. The main clause can actually function as a simple sentence in its own right. However, the subordinate clause, as soon as I get home, cannot function as a sentence in his own right. It just doesn't make any sense on its own. Let's look at another example of a complex sentence. Although studied late into the night, she failed the test. Now, in this case the subordinating conjunction, although the subordinate clause, although Emma studied late into the night or at the start of a sentence, it can be useful to put subordinate clauses at the start of a sentence because due to the fact that they start with a conjunction rather than a subject, they can help very fast. Passages of writing web, most sentences start with a subject plus verb pairing. Notice that when a subordinate fluids comes at the start of the sentence, it's separated from the main clause by a comma. However, black in the first example, it can also move the subordinate clause, the end of the sentence, MFA failed the task, although she started late into the night. Notice that when the subordinate clause comes at the end of the sentence, you did not need to separate it from the main clause with a comma. Now, you might also pick up, for an example, I kept the proper noun Emma, near the start of the sentence, rather than moving it to the end of the subordinate clause. You do not always need to change the nouns to pronouns and pronouns to announce like this. But sometimes as in this case, the changes needed for clarity. 9. Exercise 4: Complex Sentences: In part a, you have the opportunity to identify the subordinating conjunction and the subordinate fluids and a series of sentences. If we look at the first one together, because it was raining, the match was canceled. We've got the subordinate clause here at the beginning. Sorry the conjunction because I will write because here, the subordinate clause, because it was raining. We put that here. There's a few more to do on your own. In part. You got to rewrite the sentences. Say that a subordinate clause is at the end. In part b, you got to rewrite the sentence says, Well, that's a subordinate clause at the beginning. And you have to move it to the end. Just to remind you, you need to drop the come up when you move the subordinate clause to the end. So in this example, if you eat too many sweets, There's our subordinate clause. Teeth will decay. That's our main clause. We're gonna swap them around, say, your teeth. Well, decay now is fast. We drop the comma and then we write f. Eat too many sweets. There's a couple more sentences for you to complete on your own time. Now part C is the opposite. So we've got the subordinate clauses, for example, because my alarm did not go off at the end of the sentence and the main clauses at the beginning. And we're going to swap them over. Because it did not. Then we put a comma because they're subordinate clauses at the beginning of the sentence. I am late as all main fluids, and so on. Now, in Part D, you're gonna write your own subordinate clause as I want you to try experimenting with three different subordinating conjunctions. There's a list of a few here on the worksheets. Equally, you can also use any of the ones in the course or any others that you know. We're going to write a sentence with each coordinating, with each subordinating conjunction. Try and experiment to at least one of the sentence says pit the subordinate clause at the start. At least one put it at the end. So if I just pick the, the conjunction, often, put this at the beginning. Sorry. I went cheap at subordinate clause. Then we put a comma, I fall asleep. That's all main fluids at the end. Now just to vary up a bit and to experiment, I'm going to choose indifferent subordinating conjunction. And I'm going to pit the subordinate clause at the end. Let's use where. All conjunction. I went to the park. I could say lots of books. Again, may influence subordinate clause in the second half. Now, part e is where the magic is really going to happen. Your task here is in six or seven sentences to write about a time when you were looking forward to an event, but it got canceled. And at least two of your sentences, she talks subordinate clauses. And the other sentences. You can use, simple sentences and compound sentences. Sorry, we got three sentence types that you can use. But before you actually try this, Let's dive in and have a little look at a model and how this will work. These paragraphs actually stem literally from my own experience at the start of the pandemic. I had planned to attend some facilitating workshops in order to learn more about nature and climate change. It was February 2020. The workshop leaders had asthma, so they canceled the workshop. Well, there I felt disappointed I found the new direction during those early days of the pandemic. I cycled out with the city every day at witnessed the blossoming of spring in the unseasonably warm, much sunlight nature we're showing me about her wonders onto our impending destruction. Fast hand. Sorry to highlight a few features of the extract for reference. There are two complex sentences as subordinate clauses here. The first subordinate clause, in order to learn more about nature and climate change, change comes at the end of a complex sentence. The second subordinate clause is, although I felt disappointed. And this comes at the start of a complex sentence, this position at the start is particularly effective because it helps to create variety. Aside from this sentence, every sentence starts with a subject plus verb. So having the conjunction at the startup, one of the sentences add some interest. Aside from these complex sentences, there are a couple of compounds sentences. For example, the workshop leaders had asked Mr, they canceled the workshop. Here the two hearts with the sentence are joined by the coordinating conjunction psi. Overall with a predominance of complex and compound sentence structure as many of the sentences are moderately long. However, in the first paragraph or short simple sentence, it was February 2020 is used. It is used for contrast and dramatic effect to suddenly alert the reader to the fact that this narrative took place in the shadow of the pandemic. Remember to save your work as you go. Take photos if you're working on paper. Because there'll be an opportunity to share your answers and your extended piece of writing with the community. 10. Compound-Complex Sentences: As the name suggests, compounds, complex sentences combine the features of a compound sentence with the features of a complex sentence. More specifically, they contain at least two main clauses and at least one subordinate clause. For example, when I was jogging, it started raining, but I can't read on the subordinate clause here is when I was joking, the subordinating conjunction being one. The two main clauses are it started raining and I carried on. In this case, the coordinating conjunction joins the two main clauses together. However, we can write compound, complex sentences with the clauses in different orders. The subordinate clause can come at the beginning, middle, or end. Let us look at some examples of how that works. In the first example here. Because it was called SAM war his jumper and bobbed onto hat. The subordinate clause because it was cold comes at the beginning of the sentence. Before the pair of main clauses, somewhere, his jumper and Bob bought the hat. The second example, the customer complaint until he was blue in the face, but the manager wouldn't lesson the subordinate clause until he was blue in the face, comes between the two main clauses, the customer complaint, but the manager wouldn't listen. In the third example, the baby cried so her parents wake up even though they were exhausted. The subordinate clause comes at the end. It's there, they were exhausted and it comes off to the team may include this. The baby cried to her parents woke up. Notice also the punctuation pattern here. Punctuation in compound complex sentences can be a little bit more subtle than in other sentence types. And it depends a little bit on what your style is and the meanings that you wish to convey. However, in general, put commas after the subordinate clause unless it appears at the end of a sentence in which you use a full stop. Otherwise you don't necessarily need commas in other places, but you come at them for stylistic fact remembering of course, that comments tend to make the reader to take a pause and therefore might help to separate ideas. Now, as you can see from the examples we've worked through so far, compound complex sentences are great for showing connections between multiple factors. For this reason that particularly useful for writing good explores complex topics and ideas. However, because they show relationships between different factors, it's important to get the orders of the clauses right? If you're meaning, sometimes you can be if the subordinate clause and the sentence still maintains close to its original meaning. And it can be helpful to do this. To me, the subordinate clause, just to help with the flow of your paragraph. Let's take an example of why we take a look at an example of where we can do this. Because it was cold some war his jumper and bobbed on the hat. Now we've got the subordinate clause at the beginning here because it was cold. However, we could equally write some war his jumping because it was cold and bobbed onto hats. Subordinate clause in the middle. Or we could also write somewhere his jumper and bob down to half because it was cold with a subordinate clause at the end. Now, all three of these make perfect sense. And in this case, moving the subordinate clause works because the reason for by some light bulbs actions, the code weapon. We can put the subordinate clause, which explains that the ease of the main clause about some older man clothes about bulb, and it's still clear that both of them were affected by the cold weather. However, if we can't always move the subordinate clause like this, it really depends on the meaning of the sentence. In this example, the baby crying. So her parents woke up even though they were exhausted. The subordinate clause, even though they're exhausted, relates only to the permanent. Therefore, we can't move it to near the clause about the baby. Even though they were exhausted, the baby cried so her parents wake up. Now this doesn't make sense. It makes the baby sounds like it's more than one person and that it's exhausted. Similarly, the baby cried even though they were exhausted, so her parents wake up. Again, just does not make any sense. The rule of thumb here is to keep the subordinate clause near the main clause, which it relates to you. 11. Exercise 5: Compound-Complex Sentences: In part a, you get to identify the subordinate clause and the two main clauses in a series of compounds, complex sentences. So if we look at the first example, the gaba, because the king was a tyrant, the jail was filthy and the prisoners were hungry. We've got a subordinate clause here because the king was at its high rents. And my encloses has a jail was filthy. And then the second main clause is here, the prisoners for hungry. There's a few more questions here for you to do in your own time. Now, we've got five sentences that have no commas in them. You need to add the comments n. Now, remember, you generally put the comma off to the subordinate clause if it comes at the start or in the middle of the sentence. And otherwise you use comma where needed if you want the pores. Let's take a look at the first example so that they could get fat Zara jokes every weekday and Zach swam every weekend. Well, as subordinate clauses, hair that he could get fit. So I will put a comma in there because the subordinate clause is not at the end of the sentence. And then we've got our two main clauses and we don't particularly need a comma. You could put 1.5. It's not some requirements. Then there's a few more huffy today. Then we've got some tricky sentences. Three sentences, hair turf them. Don't really make sense because the clauses are in the wrong order. And you've got to identify the two sentences that are wrong with the clauses in the correct order here. If we take a look at the first example, in order to stay dry, it looks like it was going to rain, so I bought an umbrella. It doesn't make sense. Or does it stay dry? Needs to go at the end of the sentence. So we'd move it to the end of the sentence and write it here. In Part D, you're going to write three compound, complex sentences of your own. And the first tried to put the subordinate clause at the start of sentence. In the second, put it in the middle and then the thoughts but at the end of the sentence. So just to give you an idea, I'll start with the first example site with a subordinate clause at the start of the sentence, we're gonna guys, it was winter. The sun was shining and the sky was bright. That we have it. And then you'd write sentences with a subordinate clause in the middle at the end. Now, pot a as well, the real magic of this course happens. You got to put everything you've learned so far together and you're gonna write a couple of paragraphs, six or seven sentences. When she describe a time when you had to make a difficult decision. Within the six or seven sentences, you need to encode two compounds, complex sentences, as well as of a sentence types such as compound, simple, complex. And so before you do that, I'm gonna show you an example of how this might work. Let's take a look. I could not decide whether to leave my job. Well, there I wanted the freedom of self-employment. I'd recently both a flat and I needed financial security. I was caught in a cycle of indecision as a result, I hated my boring job at the office and along to pursue my passions, not abandoned my regular paycheck. I finally took the plunge during virus quarantine when Sydney senior decision-making brought this situation to a hat, the majority of my company was finite, but I was not. So I bought the brands of everyone's black. It was time to leave. A few useful grammatical points to note from this example, our compound complex sentences helped to highlight the competing, competing needs that led to the dilemma. Security and a regular paycheck on the one hand, and the freedom to pursue passions on the other. Here's the examples. Well, there I wanted the freedom of self-employment. I'd recently bought a flat and I needed to financial security. I hated my boring job at the office and lumped per team my passions, my dad not abandon my regular paycheck. Other sentence types are used, for example, a complex sentence. I finally took the plunge, cheering virus quarantine when seeing IT decision-making vote the situation to a hat. This type of sentence structure shows that it was a single reason the actions of senior management that led to the final decision. Compound sentence with three rather than the more common two clauses. It is in the majority of my company was finite, but I was not, sorry, bore the brunt of everyone's work. This builds energy towards the final resolution. It's followed by a short simple sentence which is emphatic because of its brevity and highlights the conclusion if the dilemma, it was time to leave. Now it's over to you to write about your own dynamic using compound, complex sentences and other sentence types. And everyone's really looking forward to seeing what you come up with. 12. Creating Your Own Sentence Structures: I hate through what we've covered so far, you've gained some insight into how to use different sentence types and what to use them for. But just before I conclude the module, I really want to emphasize that now you understand the basic concepts, it's time to take the sentence structures and make them your own. Adapt them to your own style, content, and purpose. Well, grandma is a discipline and can seem quite mechanical, enormous scientific at times, writing is an art school. I just wanted to leave you with a few final examples, an exercise which reflects this. Here are a few examples. Mother could not decide where we would have our die out. And I wanted to go to the park because she liked exercising. But Adam wanted to go to the library because he liked reading and baby aid and cried whenever he left the house. We've got a very long compound, complex sentence here is essentially a list with three main clauses each followed by subordinate clause. Now it's important to be careful to use these types of long sentences with CAM in your own writing so it doesn't become overly wordy. But in this case, the sentence structure is quite effective, is it helps to convey the complexity of the children's competing needs and the difficulty of reaching a consensus. Let's take a look at another example. Because his grandfather was sleeping bop tip toe around the house so as not to disturb him. This case, we have a compound sentence, but with two rather than the usual one subordinate clause. The main idea in the main clause is the bulb tip paint around the house. The T subordinate clauses enabled the writer to convey the tube related reasons for the action that bulbs grandfather was sleeping and the bulb didn't want to disturb him. Those are ways that you can embed a subordinate fluids in parenthesis within the main clause. For example, Ben, that he was only 11, seemed to precocious. Hey, the subordinate clause, though he was only 11, is inserted between the subject and the verb was. It's not at the start of the sentence normally at the end. This type of embedded clause can be really useful for formal styles. But getting extra information into a sentence and for breaking up a sentence by pauses caused by the commas. However, because there were lots of other types of phrase and close that can be embedded in a sentence to leave a detailed exploration of this type of structure to a future module. 13. Exercise 6: Creating Your Own: To wrap up, I'm going to leave you with a final exercise that will help you really make the information you've learned. In this exercise, we've got the opportunity to experiment with a few sentences a little bit different to what we've looked at so far. Say for example, number one, write about a day when you were really busy using a compound sentence with more than three main clauses. Essentially be a less like first I did this and then I did this. I did this, but this happens, sorry, this happened, and so on. And it can make you sound really breathless, like you're so busy and you can't have you don't have a chance to breathe and take a full stop. And then we've got a few others say right about the time he left the house using a complex sentence with more than one subordinate clause. About a time when you're in a group of people and everyone wanted to do something different. And the old lend itself well to a compound, complex sentences, especially if you give the reasons why each person will think that they were doing. Then there's a chance at the end to experiment with a subordinate clause embedded within a main clause. Say, thank you for listening. I hope you'll share your work and enjoy writing and see you in the next module scene.