TYPE FOUR. ----- ; ----- .

 
–I like brown bread; my classmate hates it. 
–The local artist’s oil paintings are always about “still life” subjects; she does not paint any other subject for her customers. 
–The best watermelons grow in the hot south; the heaviest pumpkins are found in the north. 
–The pigeons and squirrels in Central Park are often very fat; it is very easy for them to get food from all the visitors to the park. 
–Writing this book on “sentences and paragraphs” is like fighting locusts in the cornfield; you must save each and every “grain” of time as effectively as you can. 
–We sat at the table and wondered what to eat next; the young woman across the table thought about her hungry brothers and sisters in her home. 
–Some people think that mustard is good with fish dishes; others believe that red pepper is a more suitable spice. 
–The day teacher controls his classroom of students with an iron rod; the evening teacher is beaten up during every homework class by the frustrated students. 
–Some people like to think about the great philosophical questions in the lonely vastness of the open desert; other thinkers like the enclosed seclusion of a courtyard or small attic room. 
–I like to write these sentences when my father is sleeping; I will follow him about when he is awake and active. 
–Apples are typically round; pears have their distinctive “fat hips” shape. 
–The brain gets light with fatigue around 4:00 p.m.; it is then time to rest. 
–You will fall asleep in a warm room from being too comfortable; a cold room will also plunge you into drowsiness. 
–The sea sometimes looks so bright and beautiful from above; it is a place of sudden death in the world of fish below. 
–Cats often like to drink milk and hunt for mice; dogs usually bury their bones and seek affection wherever they can get it. 
–My morning “Oral English” class is hard-working and energetic; my afternoon “Listening” class likes to sleep and do nothing. 
–Some people like a strictly-ordered and regimented way of life; others like the exciting unpredictability of an unstructured way of living. 
–The grape arbor in summer was a blessed shelter from the hot desert sun; the same place in winter was exposed to the wind and shackled by cold. 
–It was impossible to see into the waters of the river; the alluvial silt from the mountains made the swirling current brown like dishwashing water. 
–I waited for the party to finish before going upstairs; I knew there was a long night of writing in front of me. 
–The long flights across the Pacific Ocean take so many hours; they are the perfect time to think about the next year’s objectives. 
–My father likes to cook his food carefully and eat it slowly; I prefer to rip supper out of its plastic bag and devour it at once. 
–She spent her college years in a cloud of silence and aborted relationships; her classmates never knew what sort of person she really was inside. 
–They met on a nondescript Saturday night; they broke up in recriminations two days later. 
–The owl flew noiselessly through the dim but moonlit forest; it was looking for a mouse to eat.
–It is quiet once again in the upper office; I have time and freedom to write these “Type Four” sentences by myself. 
–I have made yet another error of judgment; how much longer will this go on? 
–Today’s failure makes me go to bed in sorrow; tomorrow’s opportunities make me get out of my bed in hope and expectation. 
–The new art exhibition from Holland was the biggest in years; it drew many people from all over the city. 
–Only a few people are in the newspaper’s evening office writing tomorrow’s articles; the others are either sleeping or having a late-night party. 
–His features were deeply etched by care and bad weather; his hair had also turned prematurely grey from hardship. 
–The wind outside mounted up in strength throughout the night; we curled up deeper in our beds.
–The Arctic Tern migrates from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back; it has one of the longest migratory routes of any bird. 
–The land thawed out at the very end of winter; meltwater from the snow and ice was everywhere. 
–Many domestic cats today are fat and strong from their house food; they are therefore able to catch many wild birds in the fields. 
–We shall once again drive north to the next city tomorrow; I know I will be very tired and weary tomorrow night. 
–The students picked cotton for two long weeks in silence; they were too sad in heart to want to say anything to each other. 
–Writing is a discipline that must be cultivated in hardship; an inch of progress is measured in night after night of weary hours composing new ideas. 
–There are travelers bookstores all over South-East Asia; they are the “oases of the mind” for countless backpackers and other wanderers. 
–I noticed that a new grocery store had opened up very near another grocery store; I realized that competition between them would be strong. 
–We enjoy listening to a “book on tape” while driving to the other city; it makes the drive easier to listen to another person’s voice. 
–The squirrel angrily scolded the hunter from behind the tree trunk; he knew he would be shot down if he exposed himself. 
–The taxi drivers in this city charge outrageous prices to the summer tourists; they know these customers have no other choices.  
–The crows hop eagerly through the ploughed fields after te rain; they know there are many worms just under the surface of the soil. 
–I called my sister last night; she was surprised to hear from me. 
–The waves marched majestically through the sea in endless rows; the fishing boats were all alike tossed up and down. 
–She wanted to introduce me to some business contacts; all I wanted was some information about how to buy some clothes. 
–The ducks landed on the water outside the house; they were looking for their free lunch from my grandmother. 
–The children on that street sold fruit during the long afternoons of summer; they had to make enough money to pay for their school textbooks. 
–She likes to play tennis; I prefer reading a book. 
–I called one of the local businessmen to order some stone for my house; we also spent a lot of time talking about town news. 
–It is absolutely essential that I use the quiet time of noon to write these sentences; a carelessly spent day can fall away and be gone so easily! 
–I wonder if anyone will ever read these sentences from this obscure website; they take a lot of effort to understand and analyze. 
–I really liked reading that writer’s new book; I will remember him for his unobtrusive but well-researched details hidden in his sentences. 
–The mountains bore up above the village to the very clouds; the valley floor was a distant mile or two below. 
–I like to eat cold cereal and milk for breakfast; I prefer tea and bread for lunch. 
–The steaming-hot jungle was as quiet as an abandoned city; nothing moved or spoke in the eternal fortress of thick bamboo trunks. 
–Her hair was tied into two braids; they fell down off her head and shoulders like twin waterfalls in the high mountains. 
–I bought my sixth pair of shoes from that shoe-seller; we were both glad to meet again. 
–The trains rumbled slowly through the rail sidings; everything around them seemed still and expectant by contrast. 
–One of my former students became a world-famous anthropologist; her friend gained a position as a sociology professor in a famous university. 
–The moss-covered boulders in the rainy-season riverbed were a bright and vibrant shade of green; this same moss would collapse onto dirty-brown fragments of tinder-dry waste during the dry-season. 
–The mountains were green and covered in mature jungle; the streets and surrounding farmland of the border town were covered with inches of brown-talcum dust. 
–“Undeveloped” countries seem to have a problem in making their land free of dust; the “developed” countries appear unable or unwilling to produce their own manufactured goods. 
–I bought this bracelet for you; I knew it was for you. 
–The thick sheet of ice from last week’s storm is melting; it will all be gone in a few more days. 
–The south side of the hill is free of snow and ice; the north side remains cold and unchanged. 
–I must always remind myself to work hard; it is so easy to relax and do nothing! 
–I will wake up my father in a few minutes; he wants to go out shopping. 
–I called up a local town friend on the telephone; we talked business and local news. 
–I want you to know that I will not sell off my land to other people; I plan to own and enjoy this forest property for the rest of my life. 
–I am trying to do five different things these days; it is not enough to just work in one place. 
–Mary got up early and went to work; Lenny stayed in bed and read magazines.  
–The wild thorns somehow survived the crushing weight of the ice-storm’s snow and ice; all the other small plants were flattened to the ground. 
–The hills and mountains of Central Asia reach up to the very skies; the desert basins and salt-pans spread out to the horizon and beyond. 
–Life is divided into “blocks of time” and “fragments of rest”; we need to use these many  moments of rest-time wisely. 
–The winter wind outside the window moans with the hunger of the eternally unsatisfied; my father upstairs hums tunes with the contentment born of a quiet Saturday morning. 
–My students are incurably naughty and playful; this does not stop me from remembering them constantly. 
–Having many different students is like having a stock-portfolio; you must accept that they all go up or down over time. 
–It was very foolish of me to spend so much money on those juice drinks; my guests did not appreciate them in the slightest. 
–I have done a lot of driving for my father these days; life has become a shared journey. 
–Our stove has both gas-burners and hotplates; we like to use the hotplates in winter. 
–The greenhouse is very hot in the daytime; it becomes bitterly cold at night. 
–This house has too many windows without curtains; so much heat is wasted each day in winter!
–There is a thin film of dust on the counter-tops after three days; this forces me to clean the kitchen every two days. 
–Bar soap is good for washing the hands; liquid soap is better for cleaning dishes. 
–Most people like to use shampoo to wash their hair; I prefer using bar soap. 
–I built a small greenhouse on a revolving turntable; it became very hot by “following” the sun.
–I hope you can now understand how to write these “Type Four” sentences; their structure is like that of a walnut. 
–The morning sunlight comes into the house through the east window; it says farewell to the day through the west window. 
–The sunlight outside looks warm and inviting; the air reminds me that it is still winter!