ClearTips: Stunning sentences
Questions answered
Many writers open a paragraph with a question
and keep the reader musing about possible answers through to the end.
Fine, if that's the desired effect. More potent, however, is the immediate
answer, especially with a fragment.
Does all this seem overdone? Well, yes.
Compare this with the common
All this seems overdone.
But which countries should represent these regions.
India? Pakistan says no. Brazil? Argentina says no. Nigeria? Everybody
says no.
So how much can a novelist get away with? It entirely
depends upon whether or not he can sustain our interest by sheer
force of persuasive imaginative skill.
. . . Japan's financial system has not always
been dominated by banks. Before the second world war, stock and
bond markets were thriving. In the early 1930s, half of companies'
capital came from issuing shares. Were these markets killed by accident
or design?
Probably a bit of both. . . .
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