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Sentence Types

Igor Rybak

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opening sentence: sentence written while looking through a window

casual sentence: sentence written while lying down

static sentence: sentence written while sitting

moving sentence: sentence written while sitting on the bus

run-on sentence: sentence written as the bus crashes into a lamp post

compound sentence: sentence written in jail

complex sentence: sentence written in a shopping mall

dynamic sentence: sentence that makes the reader’s heart explode

fast sentence: sentence that makes the reader perspire

slow sentence: sentence that makes the writer perspire

loose sentence: sentence about the neck of a turkey

long-winded sentence: sentence written by a writer who has no telephone, does not leave her house, has no one to visit her

short-winded sentence: sentence written by a heavy smoker, likely a man who drinks whiskey, wears a fedora and writes detective novels

winded sentence: sentence written on a stormy night beside an open window

winding sentence: sentence written after drinking a triple espresso

middle-of-the-road sentence: sentence about continuous or continual lines

translated sentence: sentence spoken by a ventriloquist’s dummy

 

Igor Rybak is a silly man who likes to write serious stories.