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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