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Sentences
The young-learner edition — same rules, smaller steps, friendlier examples.
Young LearnersUK & US
In this pillar
Every young-learner article- Absolute Phrases & Free Modifiers Want more than 'the dog was big'? Learn to add vivid detail without new sentences
- Adverbial Clauses Written one of these without noticing this week? Learn to spot and place them well
- Appositives My dog, a scruffy spaniel — know that trick? Learn what that middle bit does and why
- Cleft Sentences One part of your story matters most? Learn to split sentences and put it first
- Combining Sentences: Fixing Choppy Writing Something feels off in your writing but you can't say what? Learn to join sentences right
- Embedded & Nested Clauses Your sentence just... keeps... going? Learn to build clauses inside clauses without losing control
- English Word Order (SVO) Scrambled words make no sense — learn the order that turns them into a real sentence
- Faulty Parallelism Reading, to play football, and... sound familiar? Learn to make your lists match and flow
- Fronting & Topicalisation Every sentence starts I like, I did, we went — learn to flip the order for punch
- Independent vs Dependent Clauses Teacher wrote 'fragment' on your essay? Learn which clauses can stand alone — and which can't
- Inversion for Emphasis 'I had never seen such a mess' sounds flat — flip it for extra punch
- Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers Read back your story and gone cold? Learn to catch modifiers that grab the wrong word
- Noun Clauses Whole clauses can act like nouns — learn to spot them hiding in your own sentences
- Objects & Object Complements Got 'IO?' scrawled on your work? Learn to spot objects and complements with confidence
- Parallelism & Balance Sentence sounds off but not wrong? Learn to balance verbs and phrases so it reads smoothly
- Reduced Clauses 'The girl who was wearing the red coat' — trim it down without losing the meaning
- Relative Clauses (Defining & Non-Defining) Comma or no comma around 'who sits next to me'? Learn the rule that decides it
- Run-Ons & Comma Splices Written a run-on sentence without noticing? Learn four ways to split it and tidy it up
- Sentence Fragments Get a 'frag' scrawled on your essay? Learn to spot sentence fragments and fix them fast
- Sentence Patterns (SVO & Beyond) Know subjects, verbs and objects? Now see how they snap together into six sentence patterns
- Sentence Variety Eyes sliding off the page you're reading? Learn to vary your sentences and keep readers hooked
- Simple, Compound, Complex & Compound-Complex Every sentence in your paragraph sounds the same? Mix up the shapes and fix that
- Subject Complements & Linking Verbs "My sister is..." trails off? Find the word that finishes the sentence, every time
- Subjects & Predicates Your teacher writes a sentence on the board — split it into its two working halves
- UK vs US Sentence Structure — Reference Do British and American English really build sentences differently? The honest answer — with the few real differences.
- Word Order in Questions Turning a statement into a question? Learn the swap that makes it sound right