Sentences convey ideas and how they are related. They may have multiple ideas and relationships, so different structures help to separate a sentence’s information.
Useful links:
- Sentence patterns handout (the Writing Center at UNC Chapel Hill)
- Order of subject, object, verb (the World Atlas of Language Structures Online)
- Sentence structure and types of sentences (the Writing Center at Walden University)
- Comma handout (the Writing Center at UNC Chapel Hill)
- Semicolons, colons, and dashes handout (the Writing Center at UNC Chapel Hill)
- Punctuation (Effective Writing Practices Tutorial at Northern Illinois University)