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Unit 8Sentence Variety Goals 1. Be able to vary sentence structures to express the meaning clearly. 2. Learn to use different types of sentences to avoid monotony. 　　What is your impression of the following two sentences: Mike was happy. He won the game. What do you get from them? Both sentences are clear separately, but what is the logical connection between the two? You might assume that Mike was happy because he won the game, but that is not necessarily the case. These two sentences are subject to several interpretations. Think about the following ones: Mike was happy before he won the game.After Mike won the game, he was happy. When Mike won the game, he was happy.Mike was happy, and he won the game.Winning the game, Mike was happy. Thus you can see that many short sentences or many sentences that have the same structure may cause either confusion or monotony. We call sentences like Mike was happy. He won the game. choppy since they are not adequate in terms of both rhythm and logic. Therefore to avoid such sentences in your writing, you had better vary sentence structures and mix short and long, simple and compound or complex, loose and periodic sentences, so long as the meaning is properly expressed and the readers interest is maintained. By means of sentence variety, you can make your writing livelier. So you can not rely too heavily on a few comfortable, familiar sentence structures. Here is a paragraph that needs to be improved: 　　He was born in a small village. His father was a teacher in the village school. His mother did the housework. He began to go to his fathers school at seven. He graduated from it six years later. Then he went to the junior middle school in a nearby town. He studied at a senior middle school in the county seat. He was a good student there. He got good marks at the college entrance examinations. He enrolled in a university in the provincial capital. He studied civil engineering there. He wanted to build a highway for h