ClearTips: Stunning sentences
Trailing parts
As with leading and inner parts, what otherwise
would be an independent clause can be starkly attached as a trailing part.
The deep intrusive past was never far away—echoed
in a ruin, a habit, a village, a sight not meant to be a reminder
but there all the same.
[My house] is unadorned and functional, inexpressive
and solid: it has proved this during the last war, when it went
through the bombings, escaping with some slight damage to the
window frames and a few scratches which it still bears with the
pride that a veteran bears the scars left by his wounds.
And as with some other inner parts, you can remove the
who is or which is from a dependent clause and attach the remaining
phrase at the end with a dash or comma.
Yet, staying at home can be the most brazen act of
all. Or so we learned from Johannes Vermeer—art's first
great homebody.
This might have been much flatter as Johannes Vermeer—who
was art's first great homebody.
Hoping to jazz up vegetables' boring image, the Vegetarian
Society, a British group, recently released "Hot Dinner,"
an erotic public-service cinema ad bursting with rapid-fire shots
of sizzling chilies and oozing peaches.
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