Tag: sentences
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Every Sentence Matters…
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? George Orwell
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The Art of the Sentence: Compound Complex Sentences
So far, we’ve covered three of the four types of sentences: simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences. Today’s Grammar Monday post revolves the compound complex sentence, the fourth type of sentence in the English language. A compound-complex sentence contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. Put another way, a […]
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The Art of the Sentence: Complex Sentences
Another important type of sentence, a complex sentence, requires close attention on this week’s Grammar Monday. A complex sentence contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. As you learned in last week’s discussion of compound sentences, an independent clause is essentially a simple sentence; at the very minimum, an independent clause contains […]
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