On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, CARNAHAN SHIRLEY E wrote:
> ... the use of the complex sentence having
> become a lost art.
My former colleague Sheridan Baker (the "Practical Stylist" man)
always required his students to write "hundred-word sentences" precisely
to make them work at complex sentence structure. Better, I think, to make
one's students competent at long sentences than to urge avoiding them.
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