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Efficient Tips for Quality Writing

Enhance your writing skills with these simple yet effective tips for crafting quality sentences and paragraphs. Learn about compound and complex structures, including ways to use compound subjects and elliptical adverb clauses to add depth to your writing.

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Efficient Tips for Quality Writing

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  1. Quality Sentences = Good Paragraphs

  2. Simple sentence containing compound subject • Compound subject – two or more ideas present in the subject of a sentence, joined by a conjunction • The prime minister and president met briefly to discuss the differences in their foreign policies.

  3. Complex sentence containing noun clause as direct object • Direct object – follows verb, answers question who or what • Noun clause – clause used as a noun • The hungry students were excited that she had brought them all cookies for class today.

  4. Complex sentence containing elliptical adverb clause • Elliptical adverb clause – part of the clause might be left out when the meaning can be understood from the rest of the sentence • While [Sandy was] walking to school, Sandy began to become frustrated with the quickening pace of raindrops.

  5. Compound-complex • Compound – two or more ideas • Complex – includes one or more clauses within the sentence • Following a busy day in the overheated school, the students rushed home to relax in air-conditioning, and they desperately wished for a vacation day at the lake instead of classes tomorrow.

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