I recently had to do an activity where I was given a very simple sentence and my task was to turn it into the longest sentence possible, ensuring that it was grammatically correct. I thought that I'd share what I came up with. It's pretty long, but I'm sure that if I had really put my mind to it, I could have made it a lot longer.
The original sentence was The child kicked the cat.
Here's my embellished sentence: While running wildly around the small city apartment, the child, who was still very young in both age and mind, decided that it would be an excellent idea to kick his mother's tabby, which she had found in a back alley and brought home to nurture back to health, and, in doing so, sent the poor, gentle cat sailing across the room and through an open window, falling down into the crowded street, filled with rush-hour traffic, below before his mother, who came running quickly around the corner, sliding across the recently polished hardwood floor in her sock feet, could do anything to stop him; the child, who was now crying abundantly with tears steadily flowing down his cheeks, was promptly punished by his angry mother who was now leaning over the edge of the balcony to verify the fate of her poor feline friend.
And not one part of that is a run-on or a comma splice error.
Hope this inspired you,
Di
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