
These are linked together in one of three ways: parataxis combined with juncture coordination introduced usually by such words as 'and,' 'but,' 'nor,' 'neither,' or 'for' and a kind of quasi-subordination, where the link word is usually 'as,' 'that,' 'where,' or 'which.
#Use slapdash in a sentence series
The sentence proceeds in what is virtually a series of main statements, each developing from the last. 'Loose' to a 17th-century writer meant simply non-Ciceronian and implied a Senecan basis 'free' described a sentence-structure in which the clauses were not interlocked but each emerged from the previous by a process of accretion. "The terms 'loose' and 'free' can be readily misunderstood, and were generally misunderstood by 19th-century grammarians like Bain, who used 'loose' (with its modern overtone of 'slapdash') as a term of condemnation and so perpetuated an error still embedded in modern grammars. By the middle of the 17th century, it was an English prose quite independent of its earlier stage of imitation of Silver Latin. The new prose of short statements, to which fresh ideas could be immediately added by parataxis or simple coordination, allowed a writer like Donne or Burton to think in the act of writing. The exploratory, doubting and increasingly skeptical mind of 17th-century England could not think in such linguistic structures. slapdashHis work is always hurried and slapdash. sloppySpelling mistakes always look sloppy in a formal letter. As Jefferson said, cities are pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. be to resemble office worker of pestilential and general sweep anything away by appearance before this happy net be pointed to to lack new idea and cold-shoulder gradually. When she meets the beloved boy, she gets the tears. We must get rid of these pestilential flies. Every girl was once an angel without tears. The Ciceronian period with its unified and architectural planning, its end foreseen in its beginning, implies settled convictions. What is the sentence of Angel She is a perfect angel. "The new manner (which some now called 'Attic') as it was to develop in the 17th century did not merely suit the ears of the time. " Bacon, who began it all, soon reacted against extremest form, and the later editions of his essays (1612, 1625) were rewritten in a looser style. The Loose Sentence Style in English Prose
