Sentence structure
Good sentence structure can aid clarity and flow in writing. The choices you make as you construct sentences can impact the reader.
As Halliday and Hasan (1970: 2) state in their seminal book on Cohesion in English:
"A text does not CONSIST of sentences; it is REALIZED BY, or encoded in, sentences."
It is therefore very important to study this section on sentence structure alongside the section on text flow: coherence and cohesion ; you will find much that overlaps in these two sections of the guide.
In this section, read about:
Combining information and ideas in longer sentences
How to fix common sentence problems
We try not to use too much technical terminology in this guide, but sometimes it is necessary to use particular grammatical terms. You may find these links useful:
Glossary of grammatical terminology
Basic terminology for describing sentences
References
Halliday, M. and Hasan, R. (1976) Cohesion in English. Pearson Education.