Sentence Types

You will receive a higher mark if you use a variety of sentence types. This page explains the main sentence types.

All the words you need to link ideas and sentences together.

There is special academic vocabulary to show how one event causes another. It is easy to learn and can improve your grade!

Here are a few phrases that show the purpose of an event.

There are a variety of phrases you can use to introduce your opinions - and the opinions of other people.

Learn some more complex ways of introducing examples (rather than just 'for example...')

It is important to construct well-formed paragraphs. This is easy to do once you know how!

In academic writing you are expected to show caution when expressing ideas. Learn how to do it here!

Essay questions often ask you to describe problems and to provide solutions. It is useful to learn some specialised vocabulary to do this.

Many essay questions as about changes in society. Use this vocabulary to accurately describe the changes.