SENTENCE FLUENCY

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SENTENCE FLUENCY

• By Kayla Stacy, Faith Westovhen, Cole
  Kircherner, Richard Herro

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LENGTH SENTENCES

• Whenever you are writing an essay, make sure
  that your sentences arent all short. If they
  are, it will make your essay sound choppy.
• Try mixing it up, and use conjunctive adverbs to
  create short sentences into long sentences.

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• Using different length sentences will allow your
  essay to sound complex.
• Ex I ate ice-cream. It melted quickly.
• I ate ice-cream however, it melted quickly.

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SENTENCE BEGININGS

• Do not always start each sentence with the same
  word. Using the same word will create your essay
  to sound boring.
• Ex I visited my sister. I ate ice-cream with
  her. I saw a squirrel outside.

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• Using a thesaurus will allow you to pinpoint
  different words. Doing this will create your
  essay to include different beginnings.
• Ex I visited my sister. Afterwards, I ate
  ice-cream. While I was outside, I saw a squirrel.
• When you are done adding the different sentence
  beginnings, read your essay aloud to reassure
  yourself that it sounds correct.

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READING YOUR ESSAY ALOUD

• Whenever you are writing an essay, and feel that
  you created a mistake, go back to the beginning
  of the sentence/paragraph and read through the
  whole thing.

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• If you ever stumble upon your words and have to
  backtrack often, the sentence is most likely
  incorrect.
• Ex Shannon and Ben is going to the beach.
• You hear that is sounds incorrect.

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Sentence Structures

• Whenever your writing, make sure that you
  include prepositional phrases, appositives, or
  anything else that will spice up the writing. If
  you dont include different structures, your
  essay will sound short and bunched up.

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Appositives basically, share extra information
about the subject that is given. Prepositional
Phrases Begin with a preposition and end with a
noun, pronoun, or clause, the "object" of the
preposition.

• Ex My house is big. My house is red. A squirrel
  lives by our porch.
• My house, the red one, is big. A squirrel lives
  under our porch.

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SENTENCE FLOW AND RYTHM

• Whenever you are writing an essay, go back to
  the beginning and read through everything you
  have written.
• If you happen to stop at any point, and go back
  to re-read the sentence, your essay doesnt flow
  properly.

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Example of rhythm and flow
The spider, dropping down from twig, Unfolds a
plan of her devising, A thin premeditated rig To
use in rising. And all that journey down through
space, In cool descent and loyal hearted, She
spins a ladder to the place From where she
started.
Thus I, gone forth as spiders do In spiders web
a truth discerning, Attach one silken thread to
you For my returning. E. B. White
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Oral Language

• When you read aloud your essay, make sure that
  you do not sound as if you are reciting a
  dictionary.
• When you read your essay, and it does sound as
  if you are reciting a dictionary, use a thesaurus
  to find different and engaging words that will
  razzle dazzle you essay.

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• Add some voice and emotion in your essay. Adding
  voice to your essay will engage the readers.
• Ex The beach is pretty and noisy.
• Although the beach has breath-taking views,
  it is has cacophony.

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SENTENCE FRAGMENTS

• A sentence fragment does not express a complete
  thought. It may be missing a subject, predicate,
  or both. Sentence fragments wont make your essay
  sound fluent.
• Ex Wrote about birds.
• Sheryl wrote about birds.

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Common Mistakes

• Numerous people always start sentences with the
  same beginning.
• Ex Then we went to the beach. Then we ate
  lunch. Then we went home.
• Then we went to the beach. Later, we ate lunch.
  Lastly, we went home.

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Common Mistakes

• A great amount of people always create sentences
  to be short. They forget to add long sentences.
• Ex The cat is white. The cat eats a lot. The
  cat is fat.
• The cat is white. The cat eats a lot therefore,
  he is fat.

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Famous Writers

• The spider weaves a sticky web
• To capture bugs to eat.What keeps the spider's
  sticky web
• From sticking to her feet?
• Spider webs are very tricky
• Because not all the strands are sticky.
• Unlike the passing hapless fly,
• The spider knows which strands are dry.
• But if she accidentally stands
• Upon one of the sticky strands,
• She still would not get stuck, you see--
• Her oily body slides off free.-- Amy Goldman Koss

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Writing Practice

• Everyone will be handed a Sentence Fluency
  worksheet. Do your best to find any sentence
  fragments, places where there should be
  appositives or prepositional phrases, sentence
  beginnings that repeat numerous times, words that
  dont razzle dazzle the sentence, etc.
• In 5 minutes, we will check the worksheet.

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• Information By Cole, Richard, Kayla and Faith.
• Animations By Faith and Richard
• Typing By Kayla and Cole