Sentence Variety

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Diversity in your speech or writing requires a good knowledge of vocabulary, phrasal verbs, and idioms; otherwise you'd say the same thing in the same way every time. How boring is that?! Think about adding variety to your new language (and your mother tongue too) to increase complexity and interest for yourself and your audience.

Let's create some sentence variety to this basic sentence: I play soccer.

1. Turn it into a question: Do you know what my favorite sport is? Soccer.

2.Turn it into a passive sentence: The soccer match was won by my favorite team.

3. Turn it into an exclamatory sentence: We scored another goal!

4. Combine it with your next sentence: I played soccer on Saturday afternoon and went to the cinema on Saturday night.

5. Use a transitional phrase: Even though I like playing soccer, I sometimes enjoy being a couch potato.

6. Start with a participle: Riding the bus, I daydreamed about being a soccer star.

7. Put modifiers in different places: My favorite soccer player generously signed multitudes of autographs for his adoring and excited fans.

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