Four and a half types of sentence

What if we were to tell you that, in this entire series of lessons about sentence construction, we've only looked at 1 type of sentence?

Crazy! I mean, look at all this stuff we've covered!

We've seen how you can combine different real-world elements together in different ways:

We've seen how you can combine multiple sentences together with connectors to create different relationships:

We've seen how sentences are made up of clauses, and how clauses can be layered up inside one another to make more complex meaning:

And yet here we are saying we've only shown you 1 type of sentence!

But don't panic. Those solid foundations we've built looking at 1 type of sentence apply just the same to the 3 (and a half) other types, with only a couple of tweaks.

We'll touch on a bit of that grammar stuff (just to show where it's different from what we've covered in other lessons), but the main focus of this lesson is the function of different sentence types. In other words, what is the writer—or character—trying to achieve by using sentences like:

We'll start the lesson by looking at each type individually. Then we'll take a look at how different sentence types can work together for even more effects!