Tips for building better sentences in English

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You've made up your mind: it's time to take your English to the next level. To get closer to the native way of speaking, one thing you need is to know how to construct sophisticated sentences without making grammar mistakes or getting into a mess. Put these five tricks to use to construct better English sentences and you'll see that they won't resist you.




1) Review the basics
One good thing about English grammar is that the word order is much portugal phone number list inflexible than in Spanish, so if you remember the basic structures you have a good chance of getting it right. If we don't take into account the imperatives (less used than in Spanish), you may end up with one of these 5 types of sentence:

Affirmative: subject + verb + predicate . Sarah was preparing her presentation for that day's meeting.
Negative with to do : subject + to do + negative auxiliary + main verb + predicate. Sarah didn't remember the Sales data from August .
Negative with to be : subject + negative auxiliary + verb + predicate: Her boss wasn't happy with the outcome.
Interrogative with to do: to do + subject + verb + predicate. Do you think she will fire her?
Interrogative with to be : verb + subject + predicate. Was she thinking about her poor performance?
2) Order matters: adverbs and adjectives
Easy, right? Next, you start to “complicate” things with adverbs and adjectives.

Generally, the order of adverbs is: adverb of manner — adverb of place — adverb of time. Adverbs of time can also be placed at the beginning of the sentence. Ana thought carefully in her room yesterday or Yesterday, Ana thought carefully in her room .