Which technique is most likely to help expand the variety of sentence patterns in an essay?
Select one:

using both commas and periods

using an interesting thesis statement

using a formal tone

using both dependent and independent clauses

i would say either periods and commas or dependent and independent clauses.

the sun warms our planet, and with the moon, creates the tides. the moon orbits the earth and in turn, the earth orbits the sun. because they appear to be the same size in the sky, the sun, earth and moon work together to create eclipses. when the moon is directly in between the earth and sun