Sentence examples for awkward sentence from inspiring English sources

An awkward sentence.

"Is this an awkward sentence?" she asked.

The language errors under study are two rule-based errors (subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement) and two non rule-based errors (wrong word choice, awkward sentence structure).

Funnily enough, it was when reading about John Baskerville that one uncharacteristically awkward sentence upset my eye.

There, with that awkward sentence for an English football-loving person to write, is another key to why Italia 90 mattered so much.

("He heard himself utter three words that in all his adult life had never, in such a situation, left his mouth before. 'No, thank you.'") Awkward sentence structure aside, Bond's response is a travesty.

Still, each time he uttered his awkward sentences, he was sure other students wondered what he was doing at Princeton.

Generally your ear is better than your eyes, and if you read it aloud you are much more likely to find awkward sentences, bad tenses, and other errors.

Legal jargon; long-winded explanations of the reasons for transactions; pages of definitions; strings of synonyms; all-cap, italicized, bolded sections; and awkward sentences filled with semicolons.

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.

Her slangy style, combined with frequent solecisms and awkward sentences, sometimes seems untrue to Hawthorne's fastidious artistry and smooth Latinate diction.