文档介绍：Chapter 4 Choice of sentence Long and short sentences
Short sentences:emphatic ,clear,easy to be remembered
Liars should have good memories.(proverb)
Rolling stone gathers no moss.(proverb)
Practice makes perfect.(proverb)
PLEASE PAY CONDUCTOR(sign on a bus)
NO ADMITTANCE(sign)
You be the judge. Compare quality,brands,price.(advertisement)
$5, 000 needed urgently. Please help. Any donation humbly received.
Will repay if needs be next year.(classified advertisement)
Position of Short sentences
(1)When two of the world's most famous and literate scientists collaborate to produce a book aimed at expanding contemporary ideas about the nature of living things,the book should be well worth reading,but this one isn't.
(2)When two of the world's most famous and literate scientists collaborate to produce a book aimed at expanding contemporary ideas about the nature of living things,the book should be well worth reading. But this one isn't.
Likewise,the final short sentence,which is a question in the following example,
suggests great emphasis:
The increased number of joggers,the booming sales of exercise bicycles and other physical training devices,the record number of entrants in marathon races一all clearly indicate the growing belief among Americans that strenuous, prolonged exercise is good for their health. But is it?
Short sentences: simplicity,directness
Caution:overused
Choppy,immature,monotonous
Choppy sentences:overuse of short sentences
At least 50, 000 grizzly bears ranged from Texas to Oregon. That was before the white man came. Today,no more than 1, 000 survive in the lower 48 states. This is the result of hunting,poaching,and encroachment on their habitat. In the 1960s the National Park Service issued a decree. They stated that the animals could no longer be fed by the public. The bears had long foraged in old dump sites. The sites were abruptly closed. Hotel-keepers used to put food out for the bears. They were no longer allowed to do this. The