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Other sentence structures

Using a conjunction is not the only way to make longer sentences that express your ideas better.

Here are different versions of some of the sentences from the previous screen. Click on each one to find out more.

Starting with a participle ending in '-ing' is a different way of putting two main ideas into one sentence.
Certain adverbs can be used at the beginning of a sentence. Examples include words like however and furthermore, which help link ideas, and words like unfortunately, suddenly and finally, which give information about when things happened or how you feel.
Relative clauses starting with which (or that, who, where, whose) allow you to give extra information about something that you have mentioned in your sentence.