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Sentence Variety

• Using Initial Modifiers:
  1. Dependent Clause: Although she wasn't tired, Maria went to sleep.
  2. Infinitive Phrase: To please her mother, Maria went to sleep.
  3. Adverb: Quickly and quietly, Maria went to sleep.
  4. Participial Phrase: Hoping to feel better, Maria went to sleep.
• Using Mid-Sentence Modifiers:
  5. Appositive: Maria, an obedient child, went to sleep.
  6. Participial Phrase: Maria, hoping to catch up on her rest, went to sleep.
• Using End Modifiers:
  7. Present Participial Phrase: Maria went to sleep hoping to please her mother.
  8. Past Participial Phrase/Adjectival Phrase: Maria went to sleep, lulled by music.
  9. Maria went to sleep, awakening to scary dreams, relieved when it was morning.
• Combining Modifiers:
  10. Quickly and quietly, Maria, a young girl, went to sleep hoping to please her mom.