tailieunhanh - Essential guide to writing part 26

The second assumption is that writing is worth learning. It is of immediate practical benefit in almost any job or career. Certainly there are many jobs in which you can get along without being able to write clearly. | For more material and information please visit 390 PUNCTUATION Paratactic compound sentences punctuated with semicolons are especially common when the second clause repeats the first The New Deal was a new beginning it was a new era of American government. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Wendell Willkie was publicly and privately the same man he was himself. Roscoe Drummond All of these newcomers black and white toiled under some degree of unfreedom they were bound servants for greater or lesser terms. Oscar Handlin Using and in such sentences would be subtly misleading implying a change of thought where none in fact exists. Parataxis is also effective between clauses expressing a sharp contrast of idea Languages are not invented they grow with our need for expression. Susanne K. Langer He President Calvin Coolidge knew precisely what the law was he did not concern himself with what the law ought to be. Irving Stone Groups are capable of being as moral and intelligent as the individuals who form them a crowd is chaotic has no purpose of its own and is capable of anything except intelligent action and realistic thinking. Aldous Huxley Clauses like these could be joined by a comma and but. Omitting the conjunction and using a semicolon however makes a stronger statement forcing readers to see the contrast for themselves. Occasionally even coordinated clauses are separated by a semicolon. This is done at the discretion of the writer and is more common when the clauses are relatively long and complicated containing commas within themselves. In that case a semicolon more clearly signals the break between them. The For more material and information please visit STOPS 391 following sentence is an example the Duke of Wellington is commenting with pleasant cynicism upon the capacity of young ladies to endure the absence of lovers gone to war They contrive in some manner to live and look tolerably well notwithstanding their despair and the