Post by NeoFriend1721 on Sept 9, 2004 17:53:16 GMT -5
[glow=teal,2,300]Sentence Structure
Whee! Time to let your creativity soar! Sentence Structure is one of the most basic, and albeit, one of the most important parts of the Written English Language. With improper sentence structure your thoughts and ideas are neigh indecipherable. Either that or you end up sounding like Yoda... ... As cool as Yoda sounds, when it comes to writing, you would probably be better off using correct structure.
There are two different "voices" in anyone's writing. There's the "Passive" voice, which is what we're typically using in a 3rd person past tense narrative. At the same time, there is the "Active" voice. The Active voice is a little more engaging, and makes things less of a pain to read. It's less boring.
Which voice you use depends on the style of your writing, and the order of your words. You can have 1 idea and say it both ways: Passive and Active.
Example:
Idea: John Doe - dodge - horizontal sword slash - at his ankles - jumping
Passive: As the sword was swung across at his ankles, John Doe leapt over its attack arc for an effective dodge.
Active: John Doe dodged the horizontal slash at his ankles by jumping up over the blade.
As you can see there, the Active voice is shorter, and may be considered more interesting. You can also take these two "voices" and modify them with all sorts of things. You can throw in more adjectives, you can use the apositive ( "John Doe, the Heavy Blade, ..." ). There's lots you can do to them.
Sentence structure is a very broad, open ended subject to cover. In most cases you just need to define your subject and the associated verb, and you're okay.
"Subject + Predicate (verb) -- and in that order".
You could have a sentence that starts like this:
"Leaping over the horizontal slash, John Doe found that he was more agile than he originally thought."
However, this is a "broken" sentence. The verb has no defined noun to go with it. “Leaping over...” the question is: who leapt?
Almost every verb has a noun attached to it to.
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Whee! Time to let your creativity soar! Sentence Structure is one of the most basic, and albeit, one of the most important parts of the Written English Language. With improper sentence structure your thoughts and ideas are neigh indecipherable. Either that or you end up sounding like Yoda... ... As cool as Yoda sounds, when it comes to writing, you would probably be better off using correct structure.
There are two different "voices" in anyone's writing. There's the "Passive" voice, which is what we're typically using in a 3rd person past tense narrative. At the same time, there is the "Active" voice. The Active voice is a little more engaging, and makes things less of a pain to read. It's less boring.
Which voice you use depends on the style of your writing, and the order of your words. You can have 1 idea and say it both ways: Passive and Active.
Example:
Idea: John Doe - dodge - horizontal sword slash - at his ankles - jumping
Passive: As the sword was swung across at his ankles, John Doe leapt over its attack arc for an effective dodge.
Active: John Doe dodged the horizontal slash at his ankles by jumping up over the blade.
As you can see there, the Active voice is shorter, and may be considered more interesting. You can also take these two "voices" and modify them with all sorts of things. You can throw in more adjectives, you can use the apositive ( "John Doe, the Heavy Blade, ..." ). There's lots you can do to them.
Sentence structure is a very broad, open ended subject to cover. In most cases you just need to define your subject and the associated verb, and you're okay.
"Subject + Predicate (verb) -- and in that order".
You could have a sentence that starts like this:
"Leaping over the horizontal slash, John Doe found that he was more agile than he originally thought."
However, this is a "broken" sentence. The verb has no defined noun to go with it. “Leaping over...” the question is: who leapt?
Almost every verb has a noun attached to it to.
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