WRTG-106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Backtracking
22 Sep 2016
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Rhythm goes far deeper than grammar and offers us a great chance to understand the appeal of cumulative syntax. Once your ear can pick up the insistent rhythm of these sentences, those very rhythms can generate new cumulative levels. If there"s any magic in learning to be a better writer, this is it. Key to mastering writing cumulative sentences: read them aloud. Read every sentence you write aloud; read every example of cumulative form you find aloud. Either the modifying phrase needs a clear target or object of modification the agent of action needs to specified, the modifying phrase needs more overlap with the word it modifies, or something else is off. Our eyes are forgiving and can miss things. The improvement in the way they sound resulting from our tightening up the logical relationships within the sentences, providing missing objects for modification, or clarifying some aspect of what is being described.
