I was contemplating what I would write about today and the thought came to me, that I had not talked about the smallest building block of writing – the sentence. Thus I put together a simple primer on building sentences. Please forgive the silliness of it.
How to Build a Sentence
Put on your hard hat.
Get out the hammer and nails.
Enough with the chitchat.
Let’s build a sentence with details.
Start with a subject
Throw in a verb
End with an object
And now you have verve.
Subject – a person, place or thing.
The verb carries the action
To the object’s wellspring.
Now your sentence has traction!
Sprinkle with modifiers,
Clauses and conjunctions.
Correct your qualifiers,
Don’t forget the punctuations!
A sentence expresses thoughts,
That come in streams.
All those forget-me-nots
Our ideas and deepest dreams.
So get out your two-by-fours
Drywall and level
Open your mind’s doors
And build a sentence or several.
Then tell me a tale
Full of sentences fair,
Nonfiction or fairytales.
Words forever given to air.
By Marie Staight
Comments are welcome!
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