Sentence Construction
Concept: Stretch a Sentence
Definition:
- You can stretch a sentence by adding one or more detail to the sentence.
- It can be a word, more than a word, a phrase.
- Stretching a sentence makes the sentence more interesting and helps in giving more information.
Examples:
After stretching the sentence, it becomes:
The boy goes to school by bus.
How Can you Stretch a Sentence?
The best way to stretch a sentence is by adding more details to the sentence. Let’s understand it better with the help of an example.
Examples:
Now, we can stretch this sentence by adding more details to it. Simply, ask questions such as:
So, the final sentence would be as follows:
You can ask the below questions to get more information to write about the things you observe in your surroundings.
| Questions | What They Indicate |
|---|---|
| Who? | Indicates the person, animal, or thing. |
| What? | Explains the subject of the person, action, or thing. |
| Where? | Indicates the location of the person, thing, or animal. |
| When? | Indicates when the event took place. |
| How? | Explains the way the event took place. |
Common Mistake:
Don’t write too much many information. It can make your sentence too cluttered.
Examples:
She had noodles
for her breakfast.
She had noodles with egg and salad for her breakfast in the morning.
