Ways to Make Your Sentences Varied

Two short sentences:

I went for a walk. I saw a dinosaur.

Compound sentence:
I went for a walk, and I saw a dinosaur.
Use a Coordinating Conjunction (FANBOYS): FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET, SO

Compound predicate:

I went for a walk and saw a dinosaur.

Complex sentence:
When I went for a walk, I saw a dinosaur.
Use a subordinating conjunction at the beginning of the two sentences or between them.

Complex sentence:
I saw a dinosaur because I went for a walk.
Some subordinating conjunctions: after, although, as, because, before, if, once, since, though, unless, until, when, whenever, whereas, while

Prepositional Phrase:

I saw a dinosaur on my walk.

Add descriptive information:

I went for a walk; amazingly, I saw a dinosaur.
Use a semi-colon and an adverb to join the two short sentences.

Add descriptive information:

I went for a walk and, to my surprise, I saw a dinosaur.
Add information that is not essential after the conjunction and bracket it with commas.

Turn one short sentence into descriptive information:

I saw a dinosaur on my walk this morning.

Avoiding short sentences with the same types of structure can make your writing more interesting and descriptive. Dont bore your reader!

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