Skip to Main Content
Grammar and Style
book

Grammar and Style

by Mark Peters
February 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
352 pages
6h 29m
English
Alpha
Content preview from Grammar and Style

CHAPTER14

Varying Sentence Structure

In This Chapter

  • Why and how to vary your sentences
  • The virtues of sentence variety
  • Using conjunctions and punctuation to join choppy sentences
  • Breaking up lengthy sentences with independent clauses

Obviously, grammar is important. If it wasn’t important, this book and other grammar books wouldn’t exist. If grammar didn’t matter, you could throw down words in any order at all.

But here’s a little secret: grammatically perfect writing can still be terrible. Grammar is an essential element of good writing, but it’s only the first step. You could even think of it as a prerequisite for good writing. Your writing ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Grammar of the Edit, 4th Edition

Grammar of the Edit, 4th Edition

Christopher Bowen
Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Casey Clabough
Storytelling in Design

Storytelling in Design

Anna Dahlström

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781615644407