The most compelling and effective messages contain a variety of sentence patterns and avoid common sentence faults. You can create successful messages with sentence variety by understanding the four sentence types, controlling the length of your sentences, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.

A Simple sentence is an independent content containing a subject and a predicate verb.

Compound sentences are sentences that contains a minimum of two independent clauses joined by either a conjunction, or a semicolon and or a conjunctive adverb.

Complex sentences contains mostly a dependent clause and an independent clause.

Compound - complex sentence is a form of hybrid structured sentence that contains a minimum of two independent clauses and a dependent clause.