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2. Occasional Short Forms

If you do a word count of your sentences, you'll find some running thirty, forty, fifty words—too many for today's impatient reader to grasp. And I suspect you'll find only a few running ten to twenty words. Yet shorter sentences can give readers a bit of relief and draw attention to their unencumbered content.

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