The Need to Combine Sentences
Sentences can be combined to avoid the monotony that would surely result if all sentences were brief and of equal length. Part of the writer's task is to employ whatever music is available to him or her in language, and part of language's music lies within the rhythms of varied sentence length and structure. Even poets who write within the formal limits and sameness of an iambic pentameter beat will sometimes strike a chord against that beat and vary the structure of their clauses and sentence length, thus keeping the text alive and the reader awake. This lesson will explore some of the techniques we ordinary writers use to combine sentences.
- Joining sentences and sentence parts
- Adding words to sentences
- Adding clauses used as nouns
- Adding clauses used as modifiers
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