In this article, I present a collection of student sentences to explore what it means to, and how a writer might, inhabit a sentence. Such inhabitation is a matter of ethos, style, and composition--a matter of a writer located grammatically within a discourse. Relying on student sentences, I challenge sentence-appreciation books and websites that look only to the work of the masters as models for prose. I claim we can learn something from ordinary sentences written by ordinary writers. Acknowledging this noteworthy ordinary- ness, the collection of student sentences presented in this article asks that we consider the reader's role in locating a writer's ethos. It asks that we examine place at the sentence level, expand ethos beyond character alone, trust readers to pick up a writer's understated cues, and, most of all, attend to what ordinary sentences do on the page.