
Master the building blocks of clear writing by crafting proper sentences, mastering word order, and using varied sentence types to boost clarity, flow, and voice.
Explore micro level word order for subjects, adjectives, and adverbs, including article use, adjective order, and adverb placement.
Explore how conjunctions join words, phrases, or clauses, including coordinating and subordinating types, to form compound and complex sentences.
Explore compound-complex sentences by combining two independent clauses with at least one dependent clause, compare with compound and complex sentences, and learn to avoid run-on sentences for clarity.
Well-crafted sentences are vital for clear effective writing. A healthy variety of proper sentences can give your writing clarity, flow, comprehension, and voice. Too often students can have decent ideas, but it can be difficult to understand what these ideas are and how they are connected because poor sentence structure makes their writing confusing, immature, and sometimes incomprehensible. If you feel your ideas are good but the feedback you get on your essays is less than you hoped for, it could be poorly crafted sentences holding you back from getting you the marks and praise that you are hoping for.
In this course, Sentence Grammar the Building Blocks of Clear Effective Writing, you will learn what a proper sentence is and how to craft one. You will also learn the most important concepts around word order within your sentences. Then different types of sentences are broken down and the importance of sentence variety is made clear. Finally, common errors and how to fix them will be addressed. By the end of this course, you will understand how to write a variety of proper sentences to give your writing clarity, comprehension, flow, and voice.
Going forward, you will learn everything you need to know to make sure that the sentences within your writing deliver your ideas clearly and comprehensively while sounding confident and knowledgeable. Don’t let your sentence grammar hold you back from getting the grades you deserve!