Cayman Islands Writing Exemplar

AF5: 

Sentence Fluency

 – Vary sentences for clarity, purpose, and effect

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The author writes in full sentences and there is some variation in sentence length. He/she also experiments 

with using short sentences for effect (e.g., “Burp!”). The majority of sentences are simply structured and the 

author can work towards joining ideas with a range of connectives to create more complex sentences. 

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The author generally writes accurately in the present, future, and past tenses. He/she easily changes tenses 

when appropriate, although there are some subject verb agreement errors (e.g., “Shemar and I was…”). 

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“And” is used by the author as a connective in lists and occasionally to join two independent clauses to make  

a compound sentence.