Complicating simple sentences

A mammoth resource, with over 30 slides, taking students through six clear techniques for expanding simple sentences in creative writing.

This resource is not for the fainthearted and you probably want quite a good understanding of grammar before approaching this, although answers to all activities are provided.

By the end, your students should feel more confident in adding detail to simple sentences and should feel confident evaluating a range of different sentence structures, which is useful for analysis as well as for creative writing. Examples of complicated simple sentences are drawn from a range of sources from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.

This is not all to be covered in one lesson. It could easily stretch to two and perhaps to three.

The presentation is on a pale yellow background with sans serif font. There are worksheets with answers included.

Resources are in original form (PowerPoint/Word) and in pdf form.

This lesson requires specific prior knowledge: students need to already understand the basics of sentence structure such as subject + verb.