Abstract
They didn't need to have information chopped up into sentences. This is because the whole concept of a sentence belongs to a literate world. In speech we use units called clauses (roughly speaking there's one verb to every clause). If you tape yourself having a conversation, you'll find that you're not really using sentences at all. Instead you use strings of loosely connected clauses. Now [Milton] and his contemporaries were trained to keep lots of clauses in their head at one time.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 30-32 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Intermedia |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2001 |
Keywords
- english studies
- grammar
- authors
- writing