About Course

This lesson explores how to build sentences that range from clear and concise to richly detailed. You’ll learn to identify simple, compound, and complex structures, then practice combining them for variety, emphasis, and flow.

What Will You Learn?

  • Definitions and examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences
  • How to combine independent clauses using coordinating conjunctions
  • Techniques for embedding dependent clauses to add detail
  • Ways to vary sentence length and structure for rhythm
  • Strategies to avoid run-ons and fragments
  • Practice exercises to craft balanced, engaging prose

Course Content

Simple Sentences Foundations

  • Introduction to Simple Sentences
  • Crafting Clear Simple Statements
  • Simple Sentence

Building Compound Structures

Constructing Complex Sentences

Achieving Sentence Variety