: Re: Repetitive sentences How do I start off sentences without them being too repetitive and boring? I have a problem of starting a sentence with something like "The person" and end up using "The

@Rivera824

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My answer is two-fold.

There are lots of online sites that teach ways to vary sentence structure.

I can state this also as:

~Many sites online teach ways to vary sentence structure.
~Online, one
can find many sites that teach ways to vary sentence structure.
~To
learn ways to vary sentence structure, one can look online.
~Varying
sentence structure can be accomplished many ways, as described online.

There are certainly a dozen other ways to rewrite that sentence. You can also break the sentence into two: "Go online. You'll find ways to vary sentence structure." You can start with a dependent clause, or an independent clause. You can make a simple sentence compound or complex or compound-complex, or vice versa. These are all tools to play with.

Play. :)

This is an important skill to learn, especially if you wish to write fiction. So, don't just visit a website that catches your eye and has twenty different ways to write the same sentence. No, what you need is to practice. Go through your piece and change sentences. You can do this.

It will become second nature. But you have to be the one to do it.

Good luck.

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