It is true that you can make your writings smoother using Transitions, Cordoning Conjunctions, and my personal favorite the Compound Complex sentence. A transition is “Therefore, however, moreover,...” and list keeps going. Coordinating Conjunctions also know as FANBOYS: “For, and, nor, but, yet, so.” These are great when you have a sentence, and you want to join it with another sentence. So in stead of putting a period, you can easily put a comma FANBOY. Now to my favorite! Compound Complex is when you start your sentence with a fragment. What starts a fragment? “When, since, because, if, while...” of course the list keeps going. So with a Compound Complex sentence you have a sentence that starts with a fragment you will need a comma somewhere before your Coordinating Conjunction (FANBOY). Once you have found where the comma goes, next add a Coordinating Conjunction comma, and then another sentence. Here is the formula this really helps me to see the pattern.
Fragment,(comma) sentence,(comma) coordinating conjunction sentence.
This may sound confusing but once you know the rules it can benefit your writing a lot!
-Sarah
Whoa, that did sound really confusing I need to get with those rules so I can sound as complex as you just did :). When (fragment started, lol) reading your post my head was spinning and I thought you were speaking german:). But it is true that "rules" make things easier to remember like little rhymes that help you remember how to spell a word or what step goes next in a math problem and so on!
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When I was younger I never got the hang of those rules.... The fancy names those Yale boys (or was it Harvard?)made up are so confusing! :)
ReplyDeleteI wish we could be like Shakespeare and spell however we felt like spelling that day!!!
Thankfully I'm A LOT better then I used to be... but there is still room for improvement.
-Jenny