In a message dated 1/8/99 10:06:50 AM US Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Usually one or more of the ideas can and should be subordinated to the others, the use of the complex sentence having become a lost art. >> I didn't mean to imply in my previous post that I avoided long sentences. One of the things I'm noted for at Ball State is the ability to write long sentences which pick up momentum as you read them. (I suppose, as opposed to losing momentum??) Tad Atkinson Ball State University