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Sentence Expansion
Sentence Expansion
Sentence expansion is a good way to practice making your writing more organized and interesting. This will be particularly useful when we get to topic sentences and conclusions.
Sentence expansion is a good way to practice making your writing more organized and interesting. This will be particularly useful when we get to topic sentences and conclusions.
In sentence expansion, we're taking short, boring sentences and adding more information to make them more interesting.
Here's an easy example.
Here's an easy example.
Short, boring sentence: I walked my dog.
It's OK. There's nothing wrong with it. But if we want to start working on making more interesting, complex sentences, we can add more information.
So, what other information do I have? We can take notes about when, who, what where, and why something happened. Then, we can add that to our sentence. It looks like this:
Directions: Expand the following sentence using the question words:
He got arrested.
When?
Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
Email me your answer! iolson@tacomacommunityhouse.org
Directions: Expand the following sentence using the question words:
Marin wants a job.
When?
Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
Email me your answer! iolson@tacomacommunityhouse.org
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