English Language Exam Tips - The Secret Power of Five Sentence Types

In my experience as an English teacher and tutor, many students do not understand the basic grammatical structures of sentences.

So they make mistakes- and mistakes affect their grades.

But you can learn different sentence types to improve your writing. If you read the following, you’ll see five different sentence types in use:

Really?  Students write sentences all the time.  Many rely on simple sentence forms and this can make their writing unambitious.  Complex sentences, which require more exact punctuation, are rarely used.  Multiple complex sentences, which are really quite advanced sentence structures, are usually unheard of, but this means that students, who are quite capable of writing them, might not be accessing the highest grades.

 You can find out more about how I help students develop their writing in my ebooks:

• Quest for the Jabberwock - Five Sentence Types (for ages 7-16)
• The Five Sentence Type Workbook (for ages 16+)
• But I'm No Good At Creative Writing!
• A Dash of Punctuation

 

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