But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. “And who can adjust then? Here is someone not set up for life’s working out poorly, let alone for the impossible. For example, short, quick statements or questions can relay a tone of urgency.Short fragments, especially in the form of questions, can relay moods.The sentence has rhythm, which reflects the writer’s style and makes the sentence personal to the writer.Reader can take apart the process by which the writer wrote the sentence, just by reading it.“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy those who look up to them from a lower station …” (Prose). The sentence can still be easily understood.Regardless of the number of semicolons or commas, the sentence flows smoothly.Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose “Sentences” Kayla Kimbrel
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