Grammar Essentials: The Complete Guide

🔹 Sentence Structures: The Music of Syntax

Good writing flows. That flow often depends on how you structure your sentences. A variety of sentence types—simple, compound, complex, compound-complex—keeps the reader engaged and helps you express complex ideas clearly.

Subtopic: Avoiding Sentence Fragmentation

Sentence fragments are incomplete thoughts, often missing a subject or a verb.
Example: “While she was preparing dinner.” ← What happened next?
Revision: “While she was preparing dinner, the phone rang.”
Each sentence should stand strong on its own or be clearly linked to the next.

Subtopic: Compound Sentences – Balance and Rhythm

Compound sentences link two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction: and, but, or, nor, so, yet, for.
Example: “I wanted to go out, but it started raining.”
They are useful for showing contrast or cause-effect in literature essays and narratives.

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