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Minor Sentences

• Minor sentences can just be words. They lack grammatical sense and are usually used in speak for famous sayings. Usually they have no verb
• e.g No pain no gain.
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Simple Sentences

• These create a building block for other ideas. They are very easy to understand as they only have one verb and communicate one idea.
• e.g It is raining
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Compound sentences

• This is when two ideas are joined by 'and' 'or' or 'but' and if you took one idea away it would be a simple sentence
• e.g It was cold and we still went to town
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Complex Sentences

• When a sentence communicates more than one idea. one idea can stand as a simple sentence but the other makes no sense alone.
• e.g you can't pursuade me to go, no matter how hard you try
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Fronting

• This is when a word is placed at the front of a sentence for effect
• e.g Against the cliffs, the sea crashed.
• This an give emphasis to certain actions in the piece

Anaphora

• When the author references something in the text as he, she, it or they to stop repetiontion
• e.g I cooked a cake for my parents, they really enjoyed it