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Learner produces varied complex sentences at exam speed, and abandons a sentence that is going wrong rather than trying to rescue it.
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The cheap decision, abandoning, and the safety valve.
Choosing the structure before the first word costs a second.
Changing it halfway costs the sentence.
Decide: subordination, relative clause, conditional, or participle. Then start.
Six sentences mid-collapse. Two are worth saving.
The fact that the committee which was appointed in March and which met only twice… — rescue or restart?
Eight openings, each committing you to one shape.
Although the subsidy is expensive,
The committee that met in March
If fares were abolished tomorrow,
Faced with falling enrolment,
Unless the council acts before June,
Having been extended twice, the scheme
The report written in June
While rents have risen sharply,
Three sentences, two structures, against the clock.
Prompt: should employers pay for their staff's training?
Set a timer for ninety seconds.
Write three sentences using two different complex structures.
Send it unchecked when the timer stops, even mid-sentence.
Unchecked.
Sixty seconds, four checks, one paragraph.
CHECK 1 — link words. Which sentence has one too many? Repaired: training is expensive, employers who invest in it keep their staff longer.
CHECK 2 — verb distance. Is any main verb more than ten words from its subject?
CHECK 3 — opener against the subject. In sentence 2, who compared the approaches? Repaired: Having compared the two approaches, concluded that training pays for itself.
CHECK 4 — conditional tail. In sentence 3, trained opens which frame? Repaired: …turnover within two years.
Which structure did you avoid because of the clock?