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by Manik Joshi (Author)
Creating long sentences in English is an art. You need practice for writing and speaking long sentences --- Here you will learn some most popular patterns to form long sentences in English. --- 01 -- Using '-ING Form of Verbs' (I) --- 02 -- Using '-ING Form of Verbs' (II) --- 03 -- Using '-ING Form of Verbs' (III) --- 04 -- Using 'With + -ING Form of Verbs' --- 05 -- Using 'Series' --- 06 -- Using 'From - To' --- 07 -- Using 'Connecting Words or Phrases' --- 08 Using 'Parenthesis' --- 09 - Miscellaneous Patterns ----- Sample This: 01 -- Using '-ING Form of Verbs'-- Example Sentence 01: The ongoing drought in the state is being described as the country's worst in many decades, causing agricultural distress and forcing villagers to move to urban areas looking for work. Main verb - described; -ING form of the verbs - causing, forcing -- Explanation: The ongoing drought in the state is being described as the country's worst in many decades. Drought is causing agricultural distress. Drought is also forcing villagers to move to urban areas looking for work. ----- Example Sentence 02: Offering huge relief to ten thousand families belonging to the below poverty line category in the state, the ministry of power directed Power Corporation Limited to waive pending domestic power bills for the last 10 months. Main verb - directed; -ING form of the verbs - offering, belonging -- Explanation: The ministry of power directed Power Corporation Limited to waive pending domestic power bills for the last 10 months. The ministry of power offered huge relief to ten thousand families. These families belong to the below poverty line category in the state. ----- Example Sentence 03: A deadly winter storm blanketed a huge swath of the country, grounding flights, turning highways into ice rinks and knocking out power to tens of thousands preparing for the New Year holiday. Main verb - blanketed; -ING form of the verbs - grounding, turning, knocking, preparing -- Explanation: A deadly winter storm blanketed a huge swath of the country. The storm grounded flights. The storm turned highways into ice rinks. The storm knocked out power to tens of thousands (people). They (those people) were preparing for the New Year holiday. ----- Example Sentence 04: From undertaking construction activities when it did not have funds, never submitting utilization certificates for works it did, charging high centage than all other procuring excess expenditure and rarely accounting for unspent balances, the administrative department indulged in financial jugglery that could put the best accountants to shame. Main verb - indulged; -ING form of the verbs - undertaking, submitting, charging, accounting -- Explanation: The administrative department indulged in financial jugglery that could put the best accountants to shame. It (the administrative department) undertook construction activities when it did not have funds. It (the administrative department) never submitted utilization certificates for works it did. It (the administrative department) charged high centage than all other procuring excess expenditure. It (the administrative department) rarely accounted for unspent balances. ----- Example Sentence 05: The city continued to reel under massive traffic jams due to waterlogging as heavy rains lashed the city for the second consecutive day, flooding several arterial roads and leaving commuters stranded for hours while exposing civic bodies' lack of preparedness to deal with the perennial problem. Main verbs - continued, lashed; -ING form of the verbs - flooding, leaving, exposing -- Explanation: The city continued to reel under massive traffic jams due to waterlogging. Heavy rains lashed the city for the second consecutive day. Heavy rains flooded several arterial roads. Heavy rains left commuters stranded for hours. Heavy rains exposed civic bodies' lack of preparedness to deal with the perennial problem
Author Biography
Manik Joshi was born on Jan 26, 1979 at Ranikhet and is permanent resident of Haldwani, Kumaon zone of India. He is an Internet Marketer by profession. He is interested in domaining (business of buying and selling domain names), web designing (creating websites), and various online jobs (including 'self book publishing'). He is science graduate with ZBC (zoology, botany, and chemistry) subjects. He is also an MBA (with specialization in marketing). He has done three diploma courses in computer too. ManikJoshi.com is the personal website of the author.
