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In today’s sentence makeover, Bryce turns a single 68-word sentence into four sentences. He shows us how to map the relationship between parts of a long sentence by identifying subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns.
I found this sentence on Twitter: “This rapid straightening-up caused a sort of tense muscular wave to ripple over Legrandin’s rump, which I had not supposed to be so fleshy; I cannot say why, but this undulation of pure matter,
Children’s books and songs can get long sentences right. In my house, we’re really enjoying this gem from a book from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library: There’s a Fish near the Gnat on the Fly on the Hair on the Frog
In this Writing is Thinking sentence makeover, I highlight the verbs that get lost in a complex sentence with an em-dash clause. This sentence appears in book of philosophy from Columbia University Press. The author writes: The decision not
I love short sentences, and I work hard to convince academic writers to use them. But that is no reason to reject all the long ones. Some sentences are so long as to be awe-inspiring, so drawn out as to