SENTENCE VARIETY

Begin sentences with a participle (verbs ending in –ing and –ed)

• Sitting on the dock of the bay, we watched the tide roll away.

• Growing up in Mississippi during the 70s, my dad was the lone rebel in his town.

• Heated by the blazing sun, we wished we weren’t outside all day long.

Begin sentence with a prepositional phrase

• After the rain, I watched the kids play in the puddles.

• To the naked eye, he is a lazy man.• In another world, I would earn a million

dollars for being a middle school teacher.

Appositives• My mom, a real estate agent in

Georgia, sold 42 houses last year.• Brent, a student in my language arts

class, is always nice to people.• McClure Middle, a school in West

Cobb, is the best school in the county.

Introductory dependent clause

• Although I didn’t like math, I worked very hard to do my best.

• Because I am a 7th grade teacher, I know what it’s like to be 12 years old.

• If you want to be somebody else, change your mind.

• As the wall fell, the Germans rejoiced.

RULES! 1 sentence beginning with a participle (verbs ending in –ing and –ed)

1 per paragraph- sentence beginning with a prepositional phrase

2 Appositives 1 per paragraph- sentences with

introductory dependent clause In each paragraph- cannot repeat

sentence beginnings