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Lesson: Varying Sentence Structures (continued)
You can vary sentence structures to express different relationships among ideas, to create a more mature style, and to increase reader or listener interest.
Check Your Understanding
Revise the following paragraphs to more effectively express relationships between the ideas and to vary sentence structures.
1. I enjoy playing this game. The game involves creating a world. You can make natural environments. You can build buildings and other structures. You can put different animals in the world. I like it more than most games. Most games are just about fighting.
2. In the United States, settlers to different regions used different building materials. In regions with many forests, such as the east and west coasts, settlers often built wood homes. Desert dwellers learned to make mud-brick, adobe homes. On grasslands and prairies, settlers sometimes dug into the ground. They made sod houses out of grass and earth. In rocky places like the Texas Hill Country, there are many stone buildings. On the other hand, the Mississippi Delta has few rocks. There are fewer stone houses there.
2 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 7
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