EXAMPLE SENTENCES, ILLUSTRATING THE SIX SENTENCE TYPES.

 
This section of the book will give example sentences, for each of the six sentence types discussed in the first part.  They are intended as examples, showing what can be done with a sentence.  They can be used as writing models, but it is strongly hoped that the true drive for sentence writing will be your own inner creativity.  Please remember, this book seeks to provide a model for sentence structure, but the energy for sentence creativity will come from you.  It is hoped that those people using this book will be able to put their own creativity to greater and better use. 
 
     When you read these sentences, try to work backwards, in terms of trying to understand how they were made.  In the previous section, you started small and developed the sentence–from the basic SVO structure, to adding adjectives, to adding adverbs, to adding other elements.  Here, you can work backwards, in a kind of “reverse-engineering” process: 
The family of hungry farm mice ate the fresh grain that the workers had carelessly dropped on the floor of the old miller’s threshing floor. 
The brown mice ate the fresh grain. 
The mice ate the grain. 
Mice – ate – grain. 
(Topic: Mice/grain.) 
 
     Please do not feel you must remember, or copy, or imitate these example sentences.  Study the structure, and learn how to analyze and “take to pieces” these example sentences.  It is hoped that you will then learn how to make up your own sentences.  When you can combine a knowledge of how to make up a given “type” of sentence, and unite this process with your own inner creativity, then you will be able to expand your overall writing ability. 
 
     However, I still feel that the best way to improve your own sentence writing is to read many easy and interesting books, especially those of your favorite authors, and learn from their sentences.  Go out, get the books you like (easy, and interesting), read them, and learn.  Over time, the writer’s style will grow on you; it is not necessary to memorize everything you read!  I hope you have fun.