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Fragments

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.

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