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Love, Family, and the Journey Home

How Long Should A Sentence Be?

Riffing off of Kris’s post on paragraphs and pacing, I want to drill down into the length of sentences. Kris touched on it, quoting Ronald Tobias: “Short sentences are more dramatic; long sentences are calmer by nature and tend to be more explanatory or descriptive.”

Source: How Long Should A Sentence Be?

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