On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes, I use parenthesis to quarantine elements of a long sentence, > particularly elements that are merely there for clarification and are > not referred to in following sentences, basically, parts that can be > left out and only lose clarity. Sometimes, I'm reading a sentence that > is so long (written by others) that I cannot follow what it's saying. > So I have to identify the basic elements of the sentence: subject, > verb, and object. Then I can go back and read the entire sentence as > written and finally be able to understand it.
Reading Jane Austen and contemporaries can do that to a fellow. > Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already > know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be > killed. > --G. K. Chesterton Some fairy tales kill the reader. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
