ClearTips: Stunning sentences

Direct

Simplest, and thus clearest, the direct sentence has one main clause and is the starting point for countless variants.

Smart eateries are putting peculiar mushrooms on the menu.

Hard to get more direct than this: who is doing what to what and where.

Intimidatingly rakish men in blue blazers smoke cigars and sigh about marrying too young.

The collapse of an important country's banking system could produce a domino effect.

It is easy to forget how ubiquitous poetry once was, and how central to human life.

Back to Stunning sentences • Next