A sentence communicates one thought

Action sentence

• The Agent acted

• Something does something

• Something does something to something

Cumulative, elaboration

• Statement this, but also that (two sides)

• Reason, elaborate

• Fact & explainer

• Common idea, actually what is happening

• Statement: expand, elaborate (examples etc)

• Statement, summary

• Not only this, but also that (that strengthen)

• Clarification: expansion of a previous point

• Details vs. the main major issue

• Identification, the “real” issue

• Metaphor, like, similar to

• To x is to y (can use for critic, contrast, absurd)

Comparison

• One thing is like another

• Then vs. now (or future)

• Now vs. then (or future)

• This outweigh that (priority, importance)

• More/Less intense (volume of something, or a quality, a trend)

Result

• Cause & effect/result

• Reason (as in cause)

• Cause & surprising/unexpected effect/result

Contrast

• Simple contrast (difference, although this - that)

• Antithesis: contrast, same form

  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

• Concession

• This is true, however the other thing is not

Evaluation

• Statement and comment on it’s truth

• Statement and comment about it’s certainty/probability

Temporal

• These happening in the same time

• These happening one after the other

• This happens in this frequency

Speculative

• Supposition

• Speculation

• Assumption

• Potential (something can…)

• Hypothetical

Suggestion

• Suggest something

Question

• Ask something

Reasoning

• Inference

• Induction

• Deduction

Periodic

• Main idea at the end: a rhetorical device (periodic - “wait” for it)

Misc / Declarative

• List of statements

• Rule (when something, then something)