Variety in sentence patterns and length is to writing what voice inflection is to speech. Mastering a variety of sentence patterns will allow you to create interest, join clauses with precise links, and avoid monotony.

 

Writers often mistakenly treat subordinate ideas and clauses as if they were main clauses and ideas, thereby creating incomplete sentences. In this course, you'll learn to distinguish between main and subordinate clauses to avoid such sentence fragments and to improve clarity.