Expand a short sentence to add more detail or meaning. Learn how to write complex sentences with BBC Bitesize KS3 English for students aged 11-14..

Sentences have been around since the dawn of paragraphs, and indeed since before that, for sentences are essentially the building blobs of a paragraph.

The best way to write a perfect sentence is to lower your standards. I hope that advice doesn’t come across as some bait and switch, that there is no such thing as a perfect sentence. I do ...

Though he doesn’t mention that experience in his new book, How To Write a Sentence and How To Read One, it’s not far offstage.

Stanley Fish: I was inspired to write the book by the poor performance of my graduate students in a literature course. Even more distressing was the fact that these same poor sentence writers were ...

In this small feast of a book Stanley Fish displays his love of the English sentence, and even without Puccini to help, his enthusiasm is seductive.

Sometimes you may want to flesh out a short sentence, in order to add more detail or meaning. Learn how to write complex sentences with BBC Bitesize 3rd level English.