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sentence structure

How you construct words together (put words in order) to make a sentence.

 


simple sentence

A simple sentence consists of a single independent clause with no dependent clauses.
 
For example: The woman walked.
 
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)
Also see http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/sntstrct.html

substitution

A type of cohesive device.

Do not omit the word(s), but use a synonym (or synonyms) to refer to the same thing.

For example: The boy and the girl went to the shop where they bought an ice cream each. The boy bought a chocolate flavoured ice cream and the girl bought a caramel one. He asked for his in a cup, she a cone. Afterwards, they went to the park.

one = ice cream