The FordLog » Savvy sentences! http://fordlog.com Peter Ford's Organised Chaos Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:52:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Waking up sentences! -2 http://fordlog.com/2006/12/waking-up-sentences/ http://fordlog.com/2006/12/waking-up-sentences/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:19:27 +0000 Peter Ford http://fordlog.com/?p=199 Yawn Alert

The teacher ate a sandwich.

Yawn Alert

  • Throw in some words – adjectives, adverbs etc

The demented teacher calmly ate a stale sandwich.

  • Change some words to suit your own taste.

The professor devoured the ciabatta.

  • A dash of simile or metaphor adds a certain flavour.

The teacher, like a ravenous predator, clamped his jaw on the ciabatta.

  • Awesome alliteration is an optional extra.

The perfidious professor pilfered my choice ciabatta.

  • Add extra ingredients to the end of your sentence.

The teacher ate a sandwich because the local chip shop was shut.

  • Add extra ingredients to the start of your sentence

While the children were working, the teacher ate the sandwich.

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The cat sat on the table.

Let’s give the sentence a bit more zip and bite. Let’s wake it up :-)

The lion licked the buffet.

That’s better or slightly less dull ;-)

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