Developmental Writing

 

Below is a simple sentence with a structure of SLVPN.  Make the following additions to the sentence.

 

We become different people.

 

1.         add a prepositional phrase

 

 

2.         add a participial phrase

 

 

3.         add an infinitive phrase

 

 

4.         add a subordinate clause

 

 

5.         add a relative clause

 

 

With the following sentence (SVDO), you will add phrases and clauses but keep them from sentence to sentence.  In other words, each successive sentence will contain all phrases and clauses from the previous ones.

 

Players handle pressure.

 

6.         add a prepositional phrase

 

 

7.         then add a subordinate clause

 

 

 

8.         then add a relative clause

 

 

 

 

9.         then add an infinitive phrase

 

 

 

 

10.       then add a participle phrase