ClearTips: Stunning sentences
9. One-syllable Openings
Sentences obviously get off to a faster start
with a one-syllable opening than with words of two or more syllables.
And successions of one-syllable openings can (occasionally) bind a paragraph
more tightly. Rely on your ear—and restraint—to use these openings
for best effect. For they swiftly descend into the common.
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