Romance novels, mysteries, and historical biographies are examples of literary genres. News broadcasts, recipes, and repair manuals are examples of nonliterary genres. Sentences may be classified by their structure as either simple, compound, or complex. Within these broad classifications, sentences vary according to kinds of verbs and objects they contain. Structure includes the arrangement of sounds in a word, words in a sentence, and paragraphs in a literary or scientific work.
Structure is the pattern of organization that relates the parts to the whole.
The way that words are commonly used in phrases and sentences is called usage. The different ways that a word is used often depend on their placement in a sentence. Usage is usually distinguished from grammar, which refers to the system of rules that structure a language. Writing strategies are different ways of developing ideas. Description, narration, exposition,, and persuasion are all examples of writing strategies.