Sentence 1

Man is the measure of all things. (By Protagoras)

Reasons: This is a simple sentence and it is good for directness and clearness. Whenever a statement of some weighty truth, or emphatic assertion, or important definition is desired, simple sentence should be used.

Sentence 2

Lanny snorted. A jet of mucous burbled onto his lip. He ham-handed it away, went over to his fishing bag, bunched it, and made ready to leave. “Ain’t feeling sorry for me are you,rich boy?”

“I don’t feel sorry for thieves.”

“You call me that again and I’ll bust your face, hear?”

I wobbled to my feet, brushing off clods of earth. “Look, Lanny, I’ll take it all back if you just let thetrout where they are. It isn’t that I don’t want to give them to you. In fact, I might give them to you now, if you just ask.”

“Go to hell, you Sunday school boys got everything. You think you own everything. Think I’m gonna beg a few fish off you? What’ll you do if I just take’em?”He shouted his nose in the air and slit his eyes my way.

(From The Giving of Fish by John Wolfe)

Reasons:This paragraph is composed of many short sentences and they are freely used in the ordinary description or everyday conversation for directness. In this paragraph, after we read it, we feel a sense of clearness. The paragraph’s idea is expressed correctly.

Sentence 3

So crowd was their condition, and so long and so hard their experience of what such a man could do to them, within the law and beyond it, that not a voice, or a hand,or even an eye was raised.

(From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens)

Reasons: This is an inversion sentence because the subject is too long. Inversion can be usually employed to balance this sentence. If we use it reasonably, our composition will get higher score.

Sentence 4

Coming up the road was a motorcycle or at least, something that looked like a motorcycle but it was older than any bike she had ever seen:fat tires, wide gas tank, and flat seat. And riding that bike was a guy, but not an old guy, but a young guy.

(From Golden Love by Freewind Gingerblaze)

Reasons: This is a compound-complex sentence and it is usually used in writing or in formal style for dignity. This kind of sentence is good for a show of eloquence. In my opinion, it is hard for us to employ it to our composition.