The document discusses ways to improve writing through sentence variety, including revising writing to balance short and long sentences, being aware of different sentence types, changing word order, beginning sentences with adverbs or prepositional phrases, and joining ideas using -ing modifiers, -ed modifiers, appositives, or who/which/that clauses. The correct answer is that all of the options listed can help work on sentence variety.

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2. CHAPTER 31: SENTENCE VARIETY
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3. CHAPTER OUTLINE AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In this chapter, you will learn to:
 recognize a variety of sentence patterns and
incorporate an effective balance of long and short
sentences in your writing.
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4. BALANCING LONG AND SHORT SENTENCES
 Improve your writing by working on sentence
variety, the use of different lengths and kinds of
sentences.
 You can become skilled in sentence variety by:
1. revising your writing for a balance of short and long
sentences and for a mix of sentence types, and
2. being aware of the kinds of sentences you can use.
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5. USING DIFFERENT WAYS TO BEGIN SENTENCES
 Change the word order to break the monotony of using
the same pattern.
 Begin with an Adverb
 Begin the sentence with an adverb.
 Move adverbs from the middle to the beginning as
long as the meaning is clear.
 Begin with a Prepositional Phrase
 Change the usual word order of a sentence by
moving a prepositional phrase from the end of the
sentence to the beginning.
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6. USING DIFFERENT WAYS TO JOIN IDEAS
 Use an –ingModifier
 Avoid short, choppy sentences because one of the
sentences becomes a phrase.
 Use an –edModifier
 Avoid short, choppy sentences because one of the
sentences becomes a phrase.
 Use an Appositive
 An appositive is a phrase that renames or
describes a noun.
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7. USING DIFFERENT WAYS TO JOIN IDEAS
 Appositives can go in the beginning, middle, or end
of a sentence.
 Use commas to set off the appositive.
 Use a Who, Which, or That Clause
 Clauses beginning with who, which, or that can
combine short sentences.
 If the information is essential, do not put commas
around it.
 If the information is not essential, use commas.
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8. OF THE FOLLOWING, WHICH IS A WAY TO WORK
ON SENTENCE VARIETY?
A. Change the word order.
B. Being aware of the kinds of sentences you can
use.
C. Revising the writing for a balance of short and long
sentences.
D. All of the above.
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9. OF THE FOLLOWING, WHICH IS A WAY TO WORK
ON SENTENCE VARIETY?
A. Change the word order.
B. Being aware of the kinds of sentences you can
use.
C. Revising the writing for a balance of short and long
sentences.
D. All of the above.
recognize a variety of sentence patterns and incorporate an
effective balance of long and short sentences in your writing
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