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..

How do you write a sentence? Linking words together in the right way makes your writing easy to understand and interesting to read. When you are writing, words are grouped together into sentences.

I practiced writing periodic sentences until I was blue in the face without actually being able to discover how that made them interesting for readers. They weren’t very interesting to me.

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