ClearTips: Stunning sentences
It
Starting a sentence with It is generally
to be avoided, as in It is Johnson who damaged . . . , It can
now be stated with certainty that . . . , or It goes without
saying that . . . (why say it?). The reason: something deserving emphasis
at the start of a sentence becomes submerged by the fatty opening. But
an opening it can get a paragraph or entire piece off to a fast,
emphatic, monosyllabic start.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature
gets written.
Notice how clean this opening is.
It is not at all hard to see how the American
economy could support a much larger medical sector; it is, however,
very hard to see how the U.S. Government will manage to pay for
its share of that sector's costs.
It is wartime; no new labor is coming in from the
old countries across the seas.
It is that old, old issue with those old, old
battered labels—the issue of Isolationism versus Internationalism.
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