Sentence Variety
Sentences are the flow and rhythm of your paper and remain flexible with infinite combinations. You can play around with subjects and verbs, conjunctions, and independent and dependent clauses. Take advantage of all sentence types. They all have different purposes.
Important Definitions
• Independent clauses:
a complete thought that can stand on its own
made up of at least one subject and at least one verb
• Dependent clauses:
an incomplete thought that cannot stand on its own
made up of at least one subject and at least one verb
• Coordinating conjunctions:
a word placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank (e.g., and, but, so)
Subordinating conjunctions:
a word or phrase that introduces a subordinate clause (e.g., although, after, because)
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