Sentence fragments, disallowed by rigid writers
and grousing grammarians, often mimic speech and thus pick up the pace
of your writing. Unexpected, they command attention, so you should draw
that attention to big points and comments.
All the crusading doesn't reassure the
public. Just the opposite.
The full sentence would have
been: Instead, it does just the
opposite. Stripping the first three words from
the front and leaving the fragment drives the reader straight
to the point.
And on and on, line by line by line.
The range of reference is staggering.
What users have in mind instead is a half-way house
in which information is held and often processed on large, shared
machines, but viewed and used on personal ones, and accessed via
an open network that encourages all the collaboration, communication
and information-sharing that management theorists hold so dear.
In a word, the Internet.
Crash. Stockmarket bulls can act as brave
as they like but they cannot deny the terror that this simple word
strikes in their breasts.
