Beneath the car, silent, a dark heavy device, so dangerous it could wipe out the towering building. As it goes over the bridge the device, as yet unidentified, gives off a piercing noise. Around the car soldiers circle, grunting, with their sniffer dogs assessing the outside. Underneath something so powerful they don’t even realise.

Story ideas – something I am worried about

• Americas gun laws – terrorism
• Global warming
• Chinas migration

Clauses – simple sentences

• The light gleamed on the dark buildings. 
• Within the streets the light glows
• Rubbish glides along the road 
• Street lights flicker
• The ground was strewn with litter
• The light, that gleamed on the dark buildings, was

Complex sentences – The rubbish, that glides along the road, was dancing in the breeze

Within the streets a white light glows that gleamed on the dark buildings

The man who walked down the middle of the road, was humming to himself – Mr Waughs example

Unless she jumped into the pool, she would get pushed

Unless her hair was curly, she would get more dreadlocks

Unless he triggered the loaded gun, she would die