Sentence Structure allows us to become more creative. Many students are fixated so much on grammar, that they begin to worry and to repress their writing, whereas with sentence structure, the whole point is to experiment and to fail, and to fail again, and to become successful through failure and experimentation. Perhaps this is a vital link between the humanities and sciences: that everything that we do is an experiment and a hypothesis, and the only point worth making is that the effort is everything, not necessarily the product.
In my English 100 classes this semester, I plan on using this blog as a companion site that can correspond with Ann Longknife and K.D. Sullivan's The Art of Styling Sentences (AOSS). I will also experiment on my own with funny sentences so as to demonstrate the utility of these sentences. You might also be interested in a simple, online handout that exposes all of the structures for your employ: Handout Link
ANY and ALL of my students could ask questions or post on this blog if you want to, but the only real edification is for you to experiment and to play with sentence structures.
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