What makes an effective sentence?

* Grammatically, a sentence needs a subject and a predicate.

*Stylistically, it needs much more:

-Clarity: A sentence should be clear to the reader.

- Well chosen vocabulary: Choose words whose meaning you are sure of, and use them correctly.

- Strong verbs: When possible, use verbs that show the action of the sentence.

- A limited number of clauses and prepositions: The more clauses and prepositions you have, the harder it can be to understand.

- Subject-verb agreement: be sure you can identify the subject of your sentence, then make sure the verb agrees with it in number.

- Correct verb tense.


Attention!

Vary your sentences lengths (the measurement or extent of something from end to end).

. If all your sentences are short, your writing sounds "choppy" (irregular, broken waves, uneven in style).

. If all your sentences are long, your writing can be overly complicated and hard to understand.