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    The issue of sentence length leaves many writers scratching their heads. Short, long, medium length sentences - which are better? Does it make a difference? Why should we pay attention to sentence length anyway? For one, it adds as much meaning to a text as the words you choose. Sentence length conveys a specific mood and rhythm and matches the actions being described. For example, if you were writing a tense car race, shorter sentences may help heighten the suspense of the scene. On the other

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    Sentences for Drug Possession The war on drugs is a never ending viscous cycle. The United States of America spends more than fifty one billion dollars annually on drug related issues (Drug Policy). Sending someone to a prison for drug possession is irrational. Instead of going to prison, the convicted felon should be sent to a rehabilitation center to get help to fight their addiction. This would be cheaper and more effective towards solving the ongoing drug problem in the United States of America

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    Just how do we start that perfect sentence? It can be a tough decision. Sentence beginnings are like first impressions, and we want to make sure they’re right. And while there’s no single correct way to start a sentence, we need to vary them to ensure our writing doesn’t get stale or boring. So, what makes a bad sentence beginning anyway? Are there rules? Well, no, but let’s look at some examples of how repeated simple sentence openings can become stilted and tough to read. For example: John went

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    excellent sentence segmenter that can accurately detect the sentence boundaries across prose and nonprose sentences. One advantage of rule-based systems like FastContext is that it does not require parsing the sentence correctly, because they completely rely on the token-based or character-based the rules. On the contrary, some ML-based systems require features from the output of part of speech taggers and/or dependency parsers, which cannot be correctly extracted from non-prose sentences by generally

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    infamous Answer Selected Answer: c. Run on sentence . Question 2 .2 out of 2 points Correct When two independent clauses are glued together with nothing more than comma the result is a Answer comma splice. . Question 3 .2 out of 2 points Correct An dependent clause masquerading as s sentence is known as a Answer CorrectAnswer: a. fragment. . Question 4 .2 out of 2 points Correct When the elements of a sentence are put in series or a list and are the same

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    Probation is a sentence that is given to offenders instead of jail. Probation comes in different forms and many different conditions; therefore, if you were unable to meet those conditions you may be sent to jail. Probation is mostly used for first time offenders, or for those charged with minor crimes. When given probation you must meet with an assigned probation officer on a regular basis. Probation dates back to English common law. The first probation officer was recognized by the Supreme Court

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    Commas and Semicolons to Avoid Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Unlike spoken English where it is possible to pause within speech, in writing it is much more important to provide the appropriate punctuation. This allows the reader to better understand the meaning the author is trying to convey through his or her words. It is important to use punctuation, either a comma or semicolon, to properly break up the parts of a sentence. This is an area I sometimes find myself struggling to perform correctly

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    How to prevent misunderstanding in writing What is sentence? Writing is composed of many sentences. A dictionary says that sentence is a set of words expressing a statement. That is to say, a sentence consists of words. On the other hand, emotions are shown when you communicate with someone face to face. Emotion is a part of a person’s character that consists of feelings. What I want to say is that writing is not a communication tool that can express your feelings, but a mere cake of words

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    I. IntroductionThis paper is an attempt to describe the structure of Ilokano sentences, concurring with the Minimalist program proposed by Noam Chomsky. The Philippine language being considered is under the Northern Philippine subgroup with an estimated 8,000,000 speakers (NSO, 2002-2004). This study is patterned mainly after the Tagalog Sentence Structures: Minimalist Approach of Resty Cena. In this syntactic description, an overview of the language's lexical phrases will be given for starters.

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    this lesson, students will be able to classify sentences according to their type of sentence structure. 1. Introduce the topic Today, we are going to learn how to analyze sentences and classify them according to their sentence structure using the book The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. First, we will be looking at the different type of sentences that the writer uses in her writing. Then, we will use some of these sentences to learn how to classify a sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex

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