Making Your Writing Flow: Synonyms
English: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 2.4.11
Making Your Writing Flow with Synonyms
You want your writing to 'flow' and not sound boring. We call this having cohesion. You could use synonyms to improve cohesion.
Synonyms
- Synonyms are different words with the same meaning.
- Use synonyms to help your writing flow.
Sentence without synonyms
- Jimmy is nice and he has a nice house. He likes to do nice things at the weekend.
- Using 'nice' again and again is very boring.
- Using synonyms for nice will make these sentences more interesting:
Sentence with synonyms
- Jimmy is kind and he has a lovely house. He likes to do interesting things at the weekend.
Test yourself on Making Your Writing Flow: Synonyms
What are synonyms?
Which of these words is a synonym for 'bad'?