English Writing Structure Guide

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