Here are 25 AMAZING ways to structure your sentences.
BOYS (But, Or, Yet and So)
She was a good girl, but sometimes she could be
really mean.
He could choose to go on, or he could choose to go home.
It was
a pleasant day, yet storm clouds loomed on the horizon.
I was
dying to have an adventure, so I set off with my map immediately.
2A Sentences (Two lots of two adjectives)
She was a short, frumpy woman with ragged, old clothes.
Simile
(like or as something else)
The
stars looked like pin pricks in the sky.
All
the Ws (Who? What? Why? When? Where?
Was? Will? What if?)
• Why did she not bring her phone?
• What next for the intrepid group?
• Who was lurking in the shadows?
List (3 or more adjectives to
describe)
It was a dark, cold, moonless night.
Ad, Same Ad (Adjective, comma, same
adjective again)
It was a dark night, dark in a way which was quite unsettling.
He was
a smart boy, smart in a way which made him stand out.
3 Bad (dash) Questions
List three things, add a hyphen (-) and ask a
question.
Cold, dehydration, sharks- which would kill
them first?
Dragons, goblins, trolls- why were there so
many threats?
Double (ly) Ending
End with two adverbs (-ly words)
He spoke honestly and inspirationally.
3 (-ed) Words
Begin with a list of three –ed words (often
emotions)
Scared, traumatised and confused, they searched for help.
Some: Others
Some people love football:
others can’t stand it.
Personification of the Weather
Make the weather seem alive by giving it a
human feature or emotion.
The wind screamed at the children, warning them to turn back.
The clouds cried down upon the town.
Two Pairs (Two lots of paired
ideas)
Cold and afraid, lost and tired, they huddled together.
Brave and fearless, strong and handsome, the knight continued his quest.
Paired Conjunction (both/and not so/as neither/nor as/as)
It was not
so much the dark that scared him as the creepy house at
the top of the hill.
The
More, the More
The more that they teased
her, the more she wanted to scream at the top of her lungs.
De:
De (Description, colon, detail)
The sharks
were deadly creatures: picking off the swimmers one by one.
Short
Sentences
Game over.
There it
was.
Verb,
Person (Use a verb, a comma, and then a person)
Swimming,
Justin had always been
terrible at it.
Running, he seemed as though he would never stop.
Outside
(Inside)
Samantha
smiled politely (although inside she was screaming.)
Justin
shook his hand (although inside he was incredibly jealous.)
If,
if, if, then
If he had not agreed
to join them, if he had not agreed to but the fireworks, if
he had not stupidly set one off, then he would not be in this
mess.
Emotion
Word (Comma)
Petrified, she froze on the
spot.
Desperate, she screamed for
help.
Noun
(Burger Sentence)
These use
embedded clauses to add extra information in the middle of a sentence.
Emma,
who was carrying her heavy books, walked to school.
Justin,
who played baseball, forgot his PE kit on the most important day of his
school life.
Many
Questions
Where were
the rest of the group? the map? the jewels? the prisoner?
Irony
Being
sarcastic and using a word in inverted commas to mean the opposite.
This
cake is soooo ‘delicious.’
The ‘handsome’
boy turned out to be my friend playing a trick on me.
Imagine
3 Examples:
List three
things to imagine and then explain using a colon (:)
Imagine a
world where there is no Moon, where there are no tides and months were a thing
of the past: this is a story about how Earth as we know it changed forever.
POSAMS
Sentences
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Senses
