How to make short sentences longer

1. Follow the sentences from ancient literature

The sentences in ancient literature are particularly interesting. Look at the examples below. Autumn in these short sentences is like a bright painting.

Morning dew In the autumn morning, I went to the garden and saw dew spots on the grass, like pearls.

The clouds disperse and the sunset turns red. The sky is filled with glow, the cool breeze is blowing, and the cicadas are chirping in the trees.

The autumn insects and the bright moon are about to emerge, and the sounds of insects are everywhere, sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes near and sometimes far away, and their sounds are different.

Two sycamore trees have tall branches and large leaves. After frost, the leaves gradually turn yellow. The west wind blows, and the fallen leaves cover the steps.

In autumn, the autumn wind blows and the weather is cool. The autumn rain is light and the geese form a line.

The cotton fields are white, the rice fields are fragrant, and farmers are busy coming and going.

In Ye Village and Luhua Port, the sound of autumn insects can be heard everywhere.

Children, have you noticed any characteristics of these sentences? Long sentences are composed of several short sentences, which only have three or four words, and some sentences also rhyme.

The most important thing is that these very short sentences cover a lot of content. That's because each of our Chinese characters has a meaning, and when combined together, they can express a lot.

Follow ancient literary sentences to ensure you can write poetic sentences.

2

Lengthen the sentence and lengthen it again

Look at this sentence first:

Dinner is really mouth-watering! Mom's craftsmanship is great. My favorite is the fried potato shreds made by my mother. So delicious!

If it is a paragraph written by children in lower grades, it is still good. But for senior students, such a paragraph is quite unspecific.

1. What did mom cook? Tell me the name of the dish. Use a metaphorical rhetorical device to write about yourself.

2. What is the color of fried potato shreds? Besides shredded potatoes, what other side dishes are there?

3. What does my eating look like? Should you use a handful of shredded potatoes or a large amount of chopsticks? How do you put it into your mouth? Then use an exaggerated rhetorical technique to describe your eating appearance.

4. The last common saying, "It's so delicious!" is recommended to be deleted, because your eating habits have already told everyone that it's "so delicious."

This writing method is called slope training. Without prompts, it's difficult to stretch a sentence into a specific paragraph. Adding tips is like setting up ladders for going uphill, making walking easy and smooth.

According to this method, we can rewrite the above sentence as:

The dinner is really mouth-watering. Mom's craftsmanship is great. Fish-flavored eggplant, fried shredded potatoes, and sweet and sour crucian carp are all my favorites. Like a greedy cat squatting next to a small fish, I stared at the shredded potatoes, and my saliva almost dripped onto the table.

The golden potato shreds, coupled with a few red chili shreds and oily garlic cloves, make people feel even more hungry.

Mom said: "It's time to eat!" I couldn't wait to pick up a large piece of shredded potatoes and quickly put it into my mouth. I almost chewed my tongue too. Everyone laughed at me: "Xiaodouzi, have you been hungry for three days and three nights?"

Do you think the whole eating process is detailed and interesting?

3

Write short sentences

Are you surprised: "Just now I was instructing you to lengthen the sentences and then lengthen them. Why now?" Are you asking us to make the sentences shorter? ”

Lengthening the sentences refers to writing one or two dry sentences into a specific paragraph. Making sentences short means writing a long sentence into several short sentences.

Let's first read an article - "Grandfather's Garden", which contains many simple and beautiful sentences:

①The garden is bright, red and green, Fresh and beautiful.

②When the wind comes, the elm trees cry first; when the rain comes, the elm trees smoke first.

③My grandfather planted flowers, so I planted flowers; my grandfather pulled weeds, so I pulled weeds.

④The flowers bloomed, as if they had woken up. The bird flew away, as if it were wandering in the sky. The bug chirped, as if the bug was talking. Everything is alive, whatever you want to do, do it. You are free to do whatever you want.

⑤ If the Japanese melon is willing to climb on the shelf, he can climb on the shelf, and if he is willing to climb on the house, he can climb on the house. If a cucumber is willing to bloom a flower, it will bloom a flower; if it is willing to bear a melon, it will bear a melon.

Have you seen it? The sentences here are many short, but they read catchy.

Write sentences, with many short sentences in long sentences, each short sentence should not exceed ten words, so that the sentence is concise and the rhythm is also revealed.

Look at the previous example again:

① The tender green branches of the willows that have just bloomed are swinging on the calm lake.

②The chubby, round and deep buns, shaped like small balls and with patterns on the surface, are out!

③Under the bright, bright and warm sunshine in spring, we came to the square garden with green grass and blooming flowers.

When we rewrite these long sentences into several short sentences, we will find that the sentences suddenly become cute!

①The willows have just bloomed new buds, tender and green, the lake is as calm as water, and the branches are swinging back and forth.

②The buns are out of the cage! Chubby, round, like small rubber balls, with patterns on the surface!

③In spring, the sun is warm and we come to the square garden. The grass is green and the flowers are in bloom.

Isn’t it much better?

4

Do not repeat verbs

Many students write a sentence with just a few verbs over and over again. Whether an article is well written or not, verbs are the key.

Commonly used verbs in primary school students’ compositions include: look, eat, talk, laugh, cry, walk, run, jump...

Teach you a trick: "see" without "look" , replaced by other verbs that mean "see". Instead of "eating", replace "eat" with another verb that means "eat".

Continuing with the same reasoning, "said" need not be said, but replaced with other verbs that mean "said"...

Commonly used verbs are "rough verbs", which can be decomposed into various "said" "Fine movements"...

For example, "looking" can be broken down into glance, aim, stare, stare, glimpse, peep, look, gaze, watch, look around, look up, look around, gaze, look far away, look down. , peeping, looking around, looking left and right, staring...