English Sentence Structure

Writing skills are usually the most difficult skills to acquire in a language. This is particularly true in a foreign language. The goal of this app is to reduce that difficulty as it guides you through the various types of structures in the English language and illustrates how those structures combine to make sentences.

Naturally, in order to acquire writing skills you have to write. Therefore, you will be provided with an abundance of writing exercises. Some will require a small variation in a given sentence. Others will provide you with a series of words that you form into an appropriate sentence. And you will have plenty of opportunity for coming up with original sentences of your own. This development of writing better English sentences moves gradually and with careful explanation from the least complex activity to the most complex.
Make changes to given sentences.
Combine a series of words as a sentence.
Write original sentences.
In addition to the illustrations of how structures combine to form sentences and to the exercises for practice, an Answer Key is provided at the end of the app. It includes not only the correct answers for the exercises but also sample sentences, with which you can compare your original sentences.

Good sentence writing is not an impossible task, but it requires analysis and practice and a willingness to apply concepts and rules consistently. Let this app guide you, and you will discover a new confidence for writing more successfully in English.

Have fun and write well!


This app includes:

Declarative sentences and word order
Declarative sentences
Incomplete & Complete Actions
Recognizing tense from context
Types of complements
Placing emphasized elements first
Using negatives


Interrogative sentences
Interrogative sentences
Yes-No questions, Auxiliaries, Do/did questions
Progressive-form questions
Questions using interrogative words

Questions and answers
Questions about all the information in a sentence
Questions about specific parts of a sentence

Imperatives

Coordinating and correlative conjunction
Coordinating conjunctions
Correlative conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs

Pronouns
Personal pronouns
Relative pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Reflexive pronouns
Indefinite pronouns
Reciprocal & Reciprocal pronouns

Prepositions
Prepositions
Compound prepositions
Using of
Among & between, To & out, Into, onto, upon
Adjectival and adverbial prepositional phrases
Pronouns in prepositional phrases

Using adjectives

Using adverbs

Present and past participles
Present participles
Past participles
Adverbs and participles

Using infinitives

Using gerunds
Using gerunds
Gerunds versus present participles
Possessive constructions
Prepositions with gerunds
Infinitives and gerunds

Idioms
Parts of speech used in idioms
Special words and phrases

Short responses and interjections
Short responses
Interjections

Antonyms and contrasts
Strong contrasts
Prefixes and suffixes

The passive voice and the subjunctive mood
The passive voice and past participles
The subjunctive mood

Phrasal verbs