This is the
topic sentence of this paragraph, which gives the reader a good understanding
of not only the subject of the brief text to follow, but also a sense of the
writer's opinion on this interesting subject.
This is the second sentence of the paragraph which adds a little more
information about the subject (some of it rendered parenthetically) and also
serves as a buffer to the real meat of the subject to be presented in
the forthcoming sentences. Introduced by
a participial phrase, this sentence adds concrete strength and foolproof logic
to drive the point home, although it does contain one grammatical errors. And this
sentence begins with a conjunction, makes clever use of gerunding,
and ends with a prepositional phrase. How
will this interrogative sentence be answered?
With an italicized
fragment. The main clause of this sentence
should be able to stand as a sentence on its own, though unfortunately it is
concluded with a subordinate clause. This
sentence makes use of a correlative conjunction, resulting in a sentence
comprised of not seventeen, not nineteen, but a whopping twenty-three words. This sentence uses a flowery appositive, or sentence interruptor
if you will, in a failed attempt to distract attention away from the egregious
non-sequitur at the end of the sentence, caused largely by the fact that all
Nobel Prize winners were at one point registered Republicans. This sentence draws particular attention to
the use of a potentially new or unfamiliar form of punctuation known as
"quotation marks." What an upbeat
exclamatory sentence this has turned out to be!
In conclusion, this sentence should have brought the reader down for a
gentle landing at the end of the paragraph if only the writer hadn't forgotten
the period at the end
Mark Allender
01.30.06
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© 2006 Mark Allender
Mark Allender is a writer and musician living in northeast Ohio. He is
the producer and host of a podcast called Bowed Radio - a show that
features the work of creative string players.