(These Type Six sentences will be arranged by line, for easier analysis. There will be four types of Type Six sentence structure: Sequence, Parallel, Contrast, and Free. The structure will look like this. Please note: it is very easy to be writing two fused sentences here, so in order to have a better sentence, you need to have a strong “unity” of idea in the two parts; this is why a “sentence plan” is so important.)
Here is the “template” I will be using:
–Type:
–Topic:
–Plan: (a) , (b) , (c) ; (d) , (e) , (f) .
(a) ,
(b) ,
(c) ;
(d) ,
(e) ,
(f) .
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Getting up in the morning.
–Plan: (a) Up/ hard, (b) tired, (c) sleepy; (d) breakfast/slow, (e) complex, (f) in hurry.
(a) Getting up in the morning is very hard for me,
(b) as I am still tired after the previous night’s studies,
(c) and I am sleepy from having only four hours of sleep;
(d) making breakfast is a very slow affair,
(e) as cooking porridge is a complex process,
(f) and I cannot do it well in a hurry.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: Working in morning / evening.
–Plan: (a) Like working/morning, (b) peaceful, (c) much time; (d) dislike working/evening, (e) tired, (f) no time.
(a) I like working at my company’s office in the morning,
(b) as everything is so peaceful,
(c) and there is a lot of time to get all the day’s projects completed;
(d) I really dislike working in the evening,
(e) as by then I am so tired,
(f) and I have no time to even start anything.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Two classes.
–Plan: (a) Class A / hard-working, (b) care, (c) have ambitions; (d) Class B / lazy, (e) indifferent, (f) don’t believe.
(a) Class A is a very hard working and determined class,
(b) with many students who care about their studies,
(c) since they have ambition about life;
(d) Class B is a lazy and weak-willed class,
(e) and it has many people who are indifferent about being in school,
(f) since they don’t believe in the possibility of succeeding in life.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Hating cooking.
–Plan: (a) Hate cooking, (b) waste, (c) tired; (d) likes cooking, (e) lonely, (f) wants to do.
(a) I hate cooking full dinners every night,
(b) as I think such actions are a waste of time,
(c) and I am also very tired from the day’s other work;
(d) my father likes to cook like this a lot,
(e) since he is typically lonely in the evenings,
(f) and he wants to do something he thinks is important.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Preparing for a date.
–Plan: (a) Morning/prepare clothes, (b) tidy, (c) impression; (d) evening/take out, (e) good conversation, (f) made happy.
(a) The young man took a lot of time in the morning to prepare his formal clothes,
(b) as he wanted to be very clean and tidy for that night’s date,
(c) and he wanted to make a good impression on his girlfriend;
(d) when he took her out that evening,
(e) he tried very hard to make good conversation with her,
(f) and to make her happy.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: Hair turning grey.
–Plan: (a) Hair grey/job-site, (b) poor food, (c) bad apartment; (d) also/home, (e) overworked, (f) stress. .
(a) My hair began to turn grey while at my job-site,
(b) as the food there was terrible,
(c) and because my apartment was cold and dirty;
(d) it even continued to turn grey at home,
(e) as I was overworked there,
(f) and because my family gave me much stress.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Land in winter / summer.
–Plan: (a) Land / winter / hard, (b) wind / freezes, (c) emptiness / death; (d) countryside / summer / gentle, (e) breeze / caresses, (f) fullness / life.
(a) Land in winter is hard,
(b) for the wind freezes everything,
(c) and everything is covered with the emptiness of death;
(d) the countryside in summer is gentle,
(e) as the breeze caresses all,
(f) and all is filled with the fullness of life.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Energy levels.
–Plan: (a) Unhappy / no energy, (b) no motivation, (c) want / sleep; (d) happy / active, (e) many desires, (f) awake / night.
(a) I have no energy when I am unhappy,
(b) there is no motivation in me,
(c) and all I want to do is sleep;
(d) I am active when I am happy,
(e) my mind is filled with many desires,
(f) and I stay awake to make plans at night.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Falling rain.
–Plan: (a) Morning / ice fell, (b) pattering window panes, (c) streaking / lace; (d) worked up, (e) hour, (f) evening / covered.
(a) The freezing rain fell throughout the morning’s ice storm,
(b) pattering incessantly against the window panes,
(c) and sliding down the glass;
(d) this gathering lacework of delicate ice worked its way up the window,
(e) as hour succeeded hour,
(f) until the whole window was covered.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: Freezing rain.
–Plan: (a) Ice on window, (b) covering / blocking, (c) only the room; (d) projects / reading, (e) occupied, (f) forget world.
(a) The freezing rain is striking against the window each minute,
(b) covering the glass and blocking the view to the outside,
(c) so that the cold office-room is my only point of reference;
(d) my reading and writing projects are likewise pattering against the windows of my life,
(e) keeping me fully occupied with the written word and the world of books,
(f) and causing me to forget completely about the world outside my office.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Different rooms.
–Plan: (a) Father / downstairs, (b) papers outside, (c) rain / inside; (d) I / upstairs, (e) writing T. 6, (f) writing / outside.
(a) My father is in the dining room downstairs,
(b) going through his business papers,
(c) as the freezing rain has kept him indoors;
(d) I am in the office-room upstairs,
(e) writing these “Type Six” sentences,
(f) but the freezing rain has not stopped my mind from roving over the whole world.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Forming ice.
–Plan: (a) Ice / greenhouse roof, (b) accumulated sorrows, (c) burdens of life; (d) rainwater / greenhouse side glass, (e) tears / weeping, (f) the pain of life.
(a) The lacy ice on the glass roof of the greenhouse has built up over the hours,
(b) representing the accumulated sorrows of life,
(c) and the burden of cares and worries;
(d) the meltwater flows in dripping ripples down the glass walls,
(e) like everlasting tears of weeping,
(f) revealing the constant heartbreak of life.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Buyng food.
–Plan: (a) Father and I / drove, (b) through rain, (c) buy groceries; (d) we walked, (e) through aisles, (f) choosing foods.
(a) My father and I drove to the market in danger,
(b) with rain falling down on the road in blinding showers,
(c) in order to buy groceries for the weekend;
(d) we walked through the market in peace and quiet,
(e) with only a few other people around us in the aisles,
(f) choosing different meats and vegetables.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: Different worlds.
–Plan: (a) Father / builder, (b) talking business, (c) laughing at life; (d) I / office, (e) reading novels, (f) enjoying the characters.
(a) My father sat in the kitchen with his house-builder,
(b) discussing the business of the day,
(c) and laughing at the fortunes of life;
(d) I remained alone in the office-room upstairs,
(e) reading modernist novels,
(f) enjoying the way the characters’ lives unfolded.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Two sets of lives.
–Plan: (a) Deer / forest, (b) look / food, (c) wonder / survive; (d) people / house, (e) admire / view, (f) wonder / sugar.
(a) The two deer wandered all over the winter forest of icy trees,
(b) constantly looking for some food to eat,
(c) and wondering how they would survive the rest of the winter;
(d) the two people gazed out of their ski-chalet windows at the two deer,
(e) admiring the view of a brilliant winter landscape under snow,
(f) and wondering how they could have forgotten sugar for their coffee.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Enduring criticism.
–Plan: (a) Been criticized / favoritism, (b) true / not change, (c) some naturally; (d) called “strange”, (e) also true / not change, (f) who I am.
(a) Some people have criticized me for showing favoritism to certain classes,
(b) but I will not change my behavior,
(c) as certain classes consistently arouse a higher degree of a teacher’s devotion;
(d) others have also called me “strange” and non-conformist,
(e) but in this too I will not alter how I live my life,
(f) for this is who I am at heart.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Baking pies.
–Plan: (a) We / cut fruit, (b) mixed ingredients, (c) pie-tin; (d) put in oven, (e) served to guest, (f) enjoyed together.
(a) We cut up apples for a pie in the morning,
(b) mixed up the pieces with sugar in a large bowl,
(c) then spooned all the ingredients into a pie-tin;
(d) we did not put the pie into the oven until evening,
(e) when we served it during supper to our guest,
(f) and enjoyed this excellent dessert together.
–Type: Parallel
–Topic: On the formation of ice, and of language.
–Plan: (a) Slowly / rain, (b) ice / thicker, (c) roof / heavier; (d) bit / sentences, (e) words / ideas, (f) collection / better.
(a) The freezing rain falls on the roof throughout the day,
(b) causing the ice formations to become thicker,
(c) and the roof even heavier;
(d) words and ideas continuously fall into my mind over these same hours,
(e) causing thought to become ordered language,
(f) and these sentences even better.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Two workplaces.
–Plan: (a) Father / kitchen stove, (b) warm, (c) awake; (d) me / office, (e) cold, (f) concentrate.
(a) My father likes to do his reading and other household activities next to the kitchen stove,
(b) for it is warm in the kitchen,
(c) and it is easy for him to stay awake and alert when he is warm;
(d) I like to write these “Type Six” sentences in the unheated office room,
(e) for it is cold and isolated,
(f) and it is easy for me to write under such un-distracting conditions.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Work conditions, and writing.
–Plan: (a) Past writers / bad conditions, (b) slowly / carefully, (c) executed great works; (d) writers today / better conditions, (e) faster / mass-produced, (f) a different writing.
(a) Most of the writers in the past worked under conditions of great hardship,
(b) as their rooms and pens forced them to write slowly and carefully,
(c) causing them to execute great works of careful deliberation;
(d) I suspect that many of today’s writers work under far better conditions,
(e) since their high-pressured jobs and insatiable computers allow them to “mass-produce” writing at a faster rate,
(f) now causing them to generate a plentiful but somehow different product.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: The falling rain.
–Plan: (a) Rain / roof, (b) spatters / freezes, (c) flows / edge; (d) falls down, (e) blown / wind, (f) forms / ice.
(a) The freezing rain throws itself in waves upon the shingle roof,
(b) spattering in all directions into frozen droplets,
(c) or flowing down to the roof’s edge;
(d) it then falls down twenty feet to the ground below,
(e) blown here and there by the gusting wind,
(f) before forming a large sheet of ice.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: My friend and I.
–Plan: (a) Known / 14 years, (b) talked / all, (c) gone many places; (d) feel / longer, (e) transcend language, (f) share hearts.
(a) We have known each other for over 14 years,
(b) and during this time have talked about almost all there is to say,
(c) and traveled to many interesting places;
(d) I nonetheless feel that I have known her for much longer,
(e) for our union of spirit transcends by far any language,
(f) and we share our hearts as a normal way of life.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Fear, and loss.
–Plan: (a) Past / afraid, (b) isolated, (c) lost chance; (d) taken / force, (e) wonder / if, (f) late.
(a) Becoming “close” frightened me in years past,
(b) so I chosed to be isolated from love,
(c) and therefore lost it;
(d) now she will be taken from me by force,
(e) and I wonder if we would have been able to live happily together,
(f) but it is now all gone and too late.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Looking in; looking out.
–Plan: (a) I looked in, (b) small prison, (c) constraints; (d) goldfish looked out, (e) prism / universe, (f) endless possibilities.
(a) I looked in at the goldfish in its bowl,
(b) considering those glass walls as a fearful prison,
(c) and representing life’s invisible iron constraints;
(d) the goldfish stared out through the curved walls of its home,
(e) a prism projecting sight deep into the universe,
(f) to an as-yet undiscovered realm of endless possibilities.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Morning activities.
–Plan: (a) Before, (b) got up / washed, (c) did own; (d) at time / met, (e) ate, (f) even though / knew.
(a) At about an hour before breakfast,
(b) my father and I got up and washed,
(c) doing our own morning routines;
(d) we met by unspoken arrangement at seven,
(e) then discussed our day’s plans as we ate,
(f) even though we both knew what the other was going to do.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: Reflections on former classes.
–Plan: (a) Think / classes / character, (b) the positive, (c) the frustrating; (d) remember / at home / gave, (e) hope / optimism, (f) courage / difficult.
(a) I often think of the character of my former classes,
(b) of their positive and hard-working aspirations,
(c) as well as all the frustrating things they did in class;
(d) I remember at home the many intangible things they gave me,
(e) the reassurance of watching their hope and optimism blooming within,
(f) and the inner courage they drew upon to face life’s difficulties.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Monday and Friday.
–Plan: (a) Monday / tired, (b) no rest / weekend, (c) long week; (d) Friday / feel better, (e) day off, (f) go play.
(a) I usually feel very tired on a Monday morning,
(b) as there was really no rest over the weekend,
(c) and there are many classes to teach over the next four days;
(d) on most Friday mornings I feel somewhat better,
(e) as the first half of this day is my “day off”,
(f) and I have several hours of free time.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: A student I care about.
–Plan: (a) When / think, (b) tears / crack, (c) heart / aches; (d) when / imagine, (e) wonder / where, (f) hope / well.
(a) When I think of everything you were and gave to me,
(b) salt tears force their way out through my cracked eyes,
(c) and my heart aches with uncertainty and a sense of loss;
(d) when I stop and try to imagine what you are doing now,
(e) I wonder where you are setting out for,
(f) and I hope all will go well for you on life’s journey.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: On house-building.
–Plan: (a) Present / built, (b) buyers, (c) debts paid; (d) plan new houses, (e) borrow, (f) continue process.
(a) Once the present houses have been built,
(b) buyers will appear and purchase them quickly,
(c) and then any remaining debts will be paid off;
(d) new houses can be planned at this point,
(e) new mortgages raised from the ever-ready banks,
(f) and the whole process continued for another half-year.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: The plane and I.
–Plan: (a) Airplane / high, (b) book / distance, (c) survey / detail; (d) desk / office, (e) plans / sentences, (f) choose words.
(a) The pilot flies his plane high in a cloudless sky,
(b) looking far ahead into the distance,
(c) and surveying the ground below in minute detail;
(d) I hear the plane from my curtained-off office,
(e) as I make plans for these “Type Six” sentences,
(f) stopping frequently to choose evocative words and striking details.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: An argument.
–Plan: (a) Before / argument, (b) talking, (c) cooking; (d) after / dispute, (e) kept silent, (f) poking food.
(a) In the hours before our argument about life and work,
(b) we had been talking about many different things,
(c) while cooking the evening dinner;
(d) for a long time after this dispute,
(e) we both kept silent at the dining room table,
(f) poking at out food in embarassment.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Paradox, and life.
–Plan: (a) Life / paradox, (b) hemmed, (c) hurt / choice; (d) avoid / paradox, (e) black-and-white, (f) forces / solitary.
(a) Life is like a minefield of paradoxes,
(b) which always hems me in,
(c) and where my choices usually hurt or offend someone;
(d) I therefore wish to avoid paradox at most points,
(e) preferring a “black-and-white” existence,
(f) but this results in my living a solitary life.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Evening comes.
–Plan: (a) Day / close, (b) troubles, (c) fade / light; (d) evening / comes, (e) bring / peace, (f) revealing / stars.
(a) This day is finally drawing to a close,
(b) and the day’s troubles are dispersing one by one,
(c) fading away with the daylight;
(d) the welcome evening comes softly,
(e) bringing with it a new lease of peace,
(f) and revealing the night’s stars as would a lamp-lighter.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: My sister.
–Plan: (a) Known / 25 years, (b) talked infrequently, (c) very close; (d) call / twice / year, (e) discuss / writing, (f) encouraged / spirit.
(a) I have known my first “adopted sister” for over 25 years,
(b) and although we have talked somewhat infrequently during this time,
(c) we are very close;
(d) during the two or three times a year that I call her,
(e) we usually discuss writing,
(f) and I always leave those phone conversations encouraged in spirit.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Plants and animals.
–Plan: (a) Plants / absorb, (b) give off, (c) useful / animals; (d) animals / take in, (e) give off, (f) co-exist / plants.
(a) Most plants absorb carbon-dioxide,
(b) and give off oxygen,
(c) which makes plants very important to animals;
(d) the animals take in oxygen,
(e) and give off carbon-dioxide,
(f) and therefore co-exist with the plants.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: The harvest mouse.
–Plan: (a) Mouse / ball, (b) climbed / nest, (c) using / grass; (d) able / home, (e) raise / young, (f) survive / winter.
(a) The harvest mouse found a tennis ball with a small hole in it,
(b) so she climbed in and made a soft nest,
(c) using broken pieces of grass and down feathers;
(d) she was now able to have a safe home,
(e) in which to raise her young,
(f) and in which to survive the harsh winter.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Morning.
–Plan: (a) Dawn / sky, (b) branches / silhouette, (c) tinging / clouds; (d) sunlight / incandescent, (e) shadows / bedroom, (f) dissipating / mist.
(a) The coming dawn greys the morning sky,
(b) making the branches of the old oak trees appear in starkly defined silhouette,
(c) and tinging the motionless clouds in formative color;
(d) the sky is soon incandescent with sunlight,
(e) moving shadows from the branches play over the forest floor,
(f) and the mist slowly alters and dissipates under the new day’s warmth.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Wet clothes.
–Plan: (a) Taken / suitcase, (b) hung / line, (c) dried / later; (d) put / bags, (e) left / shelf, (f) rotted / soon.
(a) My cousin’s wet trousers were taken out of her rain-soaked suitcase,
(b) hung on a laundry-line in the back garden,
(c) and became dry and useful again two hours later;
(d) my sister’s wet shirt was put into a plastic bag,
(e) left on a shelf in the basement,
(f) and became rotten and useless in a few days.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: Out table.
–Plan: (a) Table / formal, (b) old / beautiful, (c) seat / guests; (d) believe / informal, (e) new / common, (f) hospitable / many.
(a) We use our dining room table for many formal dinner parties,
(b) as it is old-looking and attractive to sit at,
(c) and because it can seat many dinner guests;
(d) we do not believe in using some informal-looking table,
(e) or one that is new or common,
(f) since that is not being truly hospitable to our many vistors.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Sleeping, and driving.
–Plan: (a) Slept / home, (b) tired / talking, (c) late / night; (d) order / peacefully, (e) carefully / highway, (f) avoid / bumps.
(a) My father slept throughout most of the drive home,
(b) as he was tired from having spoken to many people at the party,
(c) and as he had stayed up late reading the night before;
(d) in order to let him sleep peacefully in the passenger seat,
(e) I drove carefully on the highway,
(f) trying to avoid bumps and sudden movements.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Flowers and insects.
–Plan: (a) Flowers / opened, (b) released / air, (c) inviting / come; (d) insects / summons, (e) came / drank, (f) covering / pollen.
(a) The meadow flowers opened their yellow and blue petals towards heaven,
(b) released scents into the gentle mountain breezes,
(c) and invited every flying insect of the field to visit;
(d) the hungry insects received the flowers’ summons,
(e) and they came to many a bloom and drank sweet nectar,
(f) covering their eager bodies with sticky clods of yellow and red pollen.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: Writing, and sleeping.
–Plan: (a) Sitting / counter, (b) writing / carefully, (c) inspiration / sources; (d) reclined / easy-chair, (e) sleeping / peacefully, (f) dreaming / achievements.
(a) I am sitting at the stone-topped kitchen counter,
(b) writing these “Type Six” sentences carefully,
(c) seeking and accepting inspiration from different sources;
(d) my father is reclining in the easy-chair by the fireplace,
(e) sleeping peacefully in his own house,
(f) dreaming randomly of his past achievements.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: Baking pies.
–Plan: (a) First / crude, (b) unfamiliar / recipe, (c) work / tiresome; (d) now / refined, (e) understand / cook, (f) labor / easier.
(a) The first fruit pies I made were very crude,
(b) as I was unfamiliar with the recipe,
(c) and found the preparation work very tiresome;
(d) I am now much more refined in my pie-cooking,
(e) as I understand how to prepare them more efficiently,
(f) and this has made the labor itself much easier.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: On driving.
–Plan: (a) Weeks / driving, (b) make / easier, (c) time / talk; (d) constant / tiring, (e) wearing / health, (f) wonder / change.
(a) I have driven my father around for many weeks now,
(b) as this makes his life easier in general,
(c) and our journeys together give us time to talk about many things;
(d) this constant driving about is very tiring for me,
(e) as it is wearing down my health,
(f) so much that I am now wondering how to change this state of affairs.
–Type: Sequence.
–Topic: Working, and sleeping.
–Plan: (a) Counter / working, (b) try / productive, (c) writing / reading; (d) tired / fading, (e) eyes / closing, (f) admit / bed.
(a) My father and I are both at the kitchen-counter,
(b) trying to be productive,
(c) whether it be writing or reading;
(d) we are both tired and fading away,
(e) with our eyes drooping shut,
(f) so we should admit it is time to go to bed.
–Type: Parallel.
–Topic: Bananas, and chips.
–Plan: (a) Bananas / cheap, (b) easy / market, (c) filling / healthy; (d) chips / simple, (e) available / restaurant, (f) perfect / sharing.
(a) I like to eat cheap bananas,
(b) as it is easy to buy them in the market,
(c) and they are both filling and healthy;
(d) my friend likes the simplicity of eating potato chips,
(e) which are easily available at most restaurants,
(f) and are perfect for sharing with many friends.
–Type: Contrast.
–Topic: No more writing.
–Plan: (a) Continue / sentences, (b) examples / study, (c) extend / pages; (d) rest / continue, (e) tired / ideas, (f) doubt / read.
(a) I sometimes think I should continue to write more “Type Six” sentences,
(b) so as to give the reader more examples to study,
(c) and thereby extend this book by many pages;
(d) I think that I should continue with the rest of this book,
(e) I am too tired to create new sentence ideas,
(f) and I doubt that many readers will read every example sentence.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: House, and courtyard.
–Plan: (a) Give / house, (b) walls / doors, (c) safe / secure; (d) provide / courtyards, (e) screened / gaze, (f) think / peace.
(a) Please give me a house in the deep countryside,
(b) a dwelling with thick walls and strong doors,
(c) a place where I can be safe and secure;
(d) please provide me with courtyards,
(e) which are screened from the gaze of outsiders,
(f) and where I can contemplate life in peace.
–Type: Free.
–Topic: Final example.
–Plan: (a) Said / enough, (b) stop / here, (c) take / rest; (d) readers, (e) think / sentences, (f) make / own.
(a) I have said enough,
(b) so I will stop here,
(c) and take my rest;
(d) as for you readers,
(e) you can think about these sentences,
(f) and then make your own.
THIS IS THE END OF THE SECTION ON “EXAMPLE SENTENCES”.