CME263H1 Lecture 8: Lecture 8

Which of the following is a good reason to vary the length of your sentences by combining sentences?

A. It makes your writing seem more mature and makes you more believable.

B. It speeds up your writing as it takes less time to write longer sentences.

C. It makes your paragraphs longer and so looks like you have a lot to say.

If you were writing that Jonathan Edwards' strong preaching would help people come back to God and the church by waking up some that thought they didn't need help, what lines from "Sinners" would you use to support your thesis?

A. "...God is a great deal more angry with... many,. in this congregation, who it may be are at ease"

B. "We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth;"

c. ".. so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by..."