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Now here's a flat-footed, dreary old academic sentence:
Emerson believed that everything that occurs as a fact in the material universe of nature is a symbolic representation of another kind of fact that resides in the realm of the spirit.
That may be a fair version of what Emerson believed, but Emerson's own sentence as it appears in Nature went like this: Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Snap! The same information in fewer than half the words and with twice the punch.
See if you can pull the knots out of these sentences:
1) Summer is my favorite time of the year because school is over and there is usually nothing to do between the last days of school and the beginning of the first week of soccer camp.
2) The short story written by Truman Capote entitled “The White Rose” was based by Capote upon the biography of Colette.
3) After you are finished looking at the book you have selected, please be sure to replace the book on the shelf where you found it.
Now here's a flat-footed, dreary old academic sentence:
Emerson believed that everything that occurs as a fact in the material universe of nature is a symbolic representation of another kind of fact that resides in the realm of the spirit.
That may be a fair version of what Emerson believed, but Emerson's own sentence as it appears in Nature went like this: Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Snap! The same information in fewer than half the words and with twice the punch.
See if you can pull the knots out of these sentences:
1) Summer is my favorite time of the year because school is over and there is usually nothing to do between the last days of school and the beginning of the first week of soccer camp.
2) The short story written by Truman Capote entitled “The White Rose” was based by Capote upon the biography of Colette.
3) After you are finished looking at the book you have selected, please be sure to replace the book on the shelf where you found it.