The Basic Cozy Grammar Course

Lesson Synopsis
Tape One

Lesson 4: Order In Sentences

(3:40)

"Have you ever wondered what makes some writing more interesting than other writing? Good writers vary the order in sentences." Marie walks us from her living room deck and across the lawn to the edge of her yard, overlooking the beach, so that we have a good vantage point for watching the seagulls. Using a sample sentence about the seagulls flying through the air, she illustrates how the sentence could be expressed in three different ways using natural order, inverted order or split order, simply by changing the position of the subject within the sentence.