Writing Challenge: Write a long sentence!

 Write a long sentence! Make sure it makes sense.

Here are some techniques you can use to lengthen your sentences: add modifying phrases, connective phrases, adjectival phrases and clauses, adjectives and adverbs. 

For 10 points extra credit, write a really long sentence.  Type it up, and email it to me at melissa.baker@lposd.org

Here is an example by Robert Louis Stevenson, from his dedication at the beginning of Kidnapped, 1886.  He is discussing his novel.

“This is no furniture for the scholar’s library, but a book for the winter evening schoolroom when the tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his day, has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman’s attention from his Ovid, carry him awhile into the Highlands and the last century, and pack him to bed with some engaging images to mingle with his dreams.”

I bet you thought “avatar” was a new word created with the digital generation; but no, Stevenson used in it in 1886!