Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft Season 1 Episode 4 How Sentences Grow

  • May 8, 2025
  • 30 min

Adding propositional content to a kernel sentence "They slept" moves sentences forward and enriches their meaning. Here are three types of strategies that give sentences more momentum and depth: the connective, the subordinative, and the adjectival.

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  • First Aired
    May 8, 2025
  • Runtime
    30 min
  • Language
    English
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