Identifying Basic Grammar Patterns

In this post, I will reflect on the grammar that I use in my own writing. I will do this by identifying the grammatical structures that I used in the longest paragraph of my QRG. The longest paragraph can be found here.

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This exercise mainly taught me one thing: I use a lot of different grammatical structures in my writing without even realizing it. I noticed so many complex and simple sentences, and my writing had no shortage of subordinate clauses. I realized then that I could make my writing more effective if I consciously used those grammatical structures. If I were to use these structures with a specific purpose in mind, it might help me communicate my point more efficiently.

Although I was able to find most of the grammatical elements suggested in my writing, there are definitely a few I want to use more often. One thing I didn't use a lot was the simple sentence structure. Sometimes, a simple sentence is more effective when you want to concisely communicate your idea, but my writing is crowded with lots of subordinate clauses and compound sentences. I think using the structure of a simple sentence would help me be more concise in my writing. I also would like to explore other sentence purposes, as I mostly used declarative sentences in my QRG. While I feel that this helps communicate my ideas most effectively in my QRG, I would like to experiment with the other sentence purposes in the future.