ClearTips: Stunning sentences

Embellished

The first common variant to the direct sentence is to attach a phrase—at the front, middle, or end.

By all these means, Alabama has made itself more like the rest of America.

The opening By all these means ties this sentence to its predecessors' presumed enumeration of the individual means.

With his good hand, he worked at the church as a handyman and janitor—among his first English words were "vacuum cleaner."

Part of the problem may be that the administration, in its zeal to uncover precise chains of command within the apartheid machine, has been chasing an impossible target.

The multi-storey pagoda came to Japan from China in the sixth century, with the introduction of Buddhism.

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