Sentence Formation for AWA Essay

Hi all, we know that AWA section is all about your writing skills, and those skills include your grammar, vocabulary, and your sentence forming style. This blog is committed towards sentence formation. Dexterity that is required for sentence figuration is very challenging, and always can be improved further with regular praxis. If you intended to do well in AWA section of GRE then be engrossed in sentence configuration.

Look at the following sentences:

1. Turn to the left. You will then see the building.

2. Peter took his food. He went to school.

Instead form these sentences in following manner:

1. Turning to the left, you will see the building.

2 . Having taken his food, Peter went to school.

“When doer of actions is doing two action simultaneously then form these types of sentences by ‘verb + ing’ ( example 1) and when doer of action has done the second action after finishing the first action then form these kinds of sentences by ‘having + verb 3 form’ (example 2 ).”

1. The moon had set. New day has arrived.

2. The deal was signed .All were happy.

Instead form these sentences in following manner:

1. The moon having set, new day has arrived.

2. The deal having being signed, all were happy.

“When doers of action of both sentences are different and it seems from there verbs that second action has fallowed the first action then form sentence this way.”

1. He failed many times. He hopes to score well.

2. She reached the office.Then she finished her work.

3. You helped me. Otherwise I can not do this.

Instead form these sentences following way:

1. In spite of having failed many times, he hopes to score well.

2. After reaching office, she finished her work.

3. I can not do this with out your help.

“When you are joining two contradicting sentences then use ‘inspite of’(example 1), if there is ‘then’ in sentence use ‘after’ to join sentences(example 2) .If there is ‘otherwise’ then use’ but for’ or ‘ without’(example 3) to join sentence” .

1 Somebody has broken the chair. I do not know him.

2 He has done something. No one knows it.

3. He has gone to which place. I do not know it.

Instead form these sentences in following way:

1 I do not know who has broken the chair.

2 No one knows what he has done.

3 I do not know where he has gone.

“Use ‘who’, ’what’, ’where’ in place of ‘somebody’,’ something’, ‘some place’ respectively to join sentences.

Some common errors in sentence formation:

1. Grammar and punctuations errors.

2. Spelling mistakes.

3. Improper capital letter usages.

4. Improper joining of sentences.

Do bear in mind that if you are habitual of making short, simple sentences then you need to start working on forming complex sentences because this will give you an edge for AWA section. Do not use colloquial language in the AWA essay. Along with these pay attention on above mentioned errors as well. If master all these skills then nothing can stop you in scoring well in AWA section.

Do share with us your views on this blog in a feedback section below this blog.

Wishing you success ahead!!!

Regards,

Shipra Srivastava

Learnwordlist.com

10 Responses to “Sentence Formation for AWA Essay”

1. seema rani on July 7th, 2010 7:48 pm

   Pls send more information on this part.

2. shipra on July 9th, 2010 8:09 am

   Hi Seema, Stay tuned for more blogs on same.

3. ali-sah on July 14th, 2010 9:13 am

   do you have any comprehenisve reference for grammatical tips than conduct the students to geting high score in gre

4. padma on July 14th, 2010 6:52 pm

   sir,
   it would be highly helpful if you could discuss something advanced like making our AWA captivating & giving us few words which we can use in our AWA irrespective of the topic.

5. shipra on July 16th, 2010 4:42 am

   Hi padma,thanks for your suggestion soon i will try to post something like that…

6. shipra on July 16th, 2010 5:28 am

   Thanks for your comment ali, kindly run through all the blogs ,there are many blogs related grammar.

7. Abdur Rehman on October 23rd, 2010 9:35 am

   Please send me the detailed information about analytical portion of the GRE.

8. shipra on October 25th, 2010 4:17 am

   Abdur, kindly visit our blog segment.

9. Faruk on October 30th, 2010 3:30 am

   Hi, I am faruk from bangladesh. I have recently completed IELTS and have scored well in all category except writing (band 6). I am always trying to improve my dextirity in this section, but need some help. This website is a good source. Can you suggest me more how to improve my writng skill.

10. shipra on October 30th, 2010 9:43 am

    Thanks for your comment faruk, kindly visit all blogs related to Analytical Section .Read more:http://learnwordlist.com/blog/

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