ClearTips: Stunning sentences

Series without a conjunction

Dropping a conjunction has the opposite effect of adding a conjunction: creating a series that is not exhaustive, but a mere sampling of possibilities. It also makes your reader see the parts of the series as more separate than joined.

This 20th century is baffling, difficult, paradoxical, revolutionary.

When the series ends a sentence, the final word resonates more without the and.

Tattoo parlours, pawnbrokers, discounters remain.

It is not merely gems that De Beers is selling, but symbols, myths, magic.

She spent all her time after school inside the houses of kids whose parents were sometimes farmhands, sometimes mechanics, sometimes unemployed.

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