Basic Grammar Lesson 4: Order in Sentences

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Basic English Grammar Lesson 4: Order In Sentences

"Have you ever wondered what makes some writing more interesting than other writing? Good writers vary the order in sentences."

Marie walks us from her living room deck and across the lawn to the edge of her yard, overlooking the beach, so that we have a good vantage point for watching the seagulls. Using a sample sentence about the seagulls flying through the air, she illustrates how the sentence could be expressed in three different ways using natural order, inverted order or split order, simply by changing the position of the subject within the sentence.

Workbook exercises and answer key are provided with this lesson.

This lesson is excerpted from the Basic Cozy English Grammar course. The full course was created by, and is available from, Splashes from the River. You can check out this and other courses from Splashes at www.splashesfromtheriver.com.

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Marie Sophia Rackham was born in 1934 and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She earned degrees in English and Geography from the University of British Columbia, and spent thirteen years studying piano with the Royal Conservatory of Music.

She worked as a public school teacher for thirty-four years, teaching at all levels from kindergarten to grade twelve; and taught piano and theory privately in her own studio for fourteen years.

Over her many years of teaching language arts, Marie developed her own curriculum for teaching basic grammar and punctuation, which was eventually published through the local Teacher's Resource Center and made available to all the schools in...

Ok

02/03/2012

~ Margi

Fair, but moving to fast. There is not enough review!

Inverted Order is not so hard

07/21/2009

~ brittanie

I definitely think I can manage inverting the order of the subject and predicate to make sentences sound more interesting. This is another great lesson by Marie that I will remember because she used seagulls as her subjects.

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