Sentence Types

open­ing sen­tence: writ­ten while look­ing through a window

casual sen­tence: writ­ten while lying down

sta­tic sen­tence: writ­ten while sitting

mov­ing sen­tence: writ­ten while sit­ting on the bus

run-on sen­tence: writ­ten as the bus crashes into a lamp post

com­pound sen­tence: writ­ten in jail

com­plex sen­tence: writ­ten in a shop­ping mall

dynamic sen­tence: makes the reader’s heart explode

fast sen­tence: makes the reader perspire

slow sen­tence: makes the writer perspire

loose sen­tence: about the neck of a turkey

long-winded sen­tence: writ­ten by a writer who has no tele­phone, does not leave her house, has no one to visit her

short-winded sen­tence: writ­ten by a heavy smoker who drinks whiskey, wears a fedora and writes detec­tive novels

winded sen­tence: writ­ten on a stormy night beside an open window

wind­ing sen­tence: writ­ten after drink­ing a triple espresso

middle-of-the-road sen­tence: about con­tin­u­ous or con­tin­ual lines

trans­lated sen­tence: spo­ken by a ventriloquist’s dummy

clos­ing sen­tence