How do you get good at making long sentences?
>>24828920You must have something to say, which is worth it's speech in one complete thought, then imagine it in terms which are most effective, that is, based on rhetoric, and if you can, edit the sentence as much as possible for the intended effect.
There's a proof and you have to find the question and answer
>Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other words, of sounds and pauses. Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature; and the true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning, involving it around itself; so that each sentence, by successive phrases, shall first come into a kind of knot, and then, after a moment of suspended meaning, solve and clear itself. In every properly constructed sentence there should be observed this knot or hitch; so that (however delicately) we are led to foresee, to expect, and then to welcome the successive phrases. The pleasure may be heightened by an element of surprise, as, very grossly, in the common figure of the antithesis, or, with much greater subtlety, where an antithesis is first suggested and then deftly evaded. Each phrase, besides, is to be comely in itself; and between the implication and the evolution of the sentence there should be a satisfying equipoise of sound; for nothing more often disappoints the ear than a sentence solemnly and sonorously prepared, and hastily and weakly finished. Nor should the balance be too striking and exact, for the one rule is to be infinitely various; to interest, to disappoint, to surprise, and yet still to gratify; to be ever changing, as it were, the stitch, and yet still to give the effect of an ingenious neatness.>The conjurer juggles with two oranges, and our pleasure in beholding him springs from this, that neither is for an instant overlooked or sacrificed. So with the writer. His pattern, which is to please the supersensual ear, is yet addressed, throughout and first of all, to the demands of logic. Whatever be the obscurities, whatever the intricacies of the argument, the neatness of the fabric must not suffer, or the artist has been proved unequal to his design. And, on the other hand, no form of words must be selected, no knot must be tied among the phrases, unless knot and word be precisely what is wanted to forward and illuminate the argument; for to fail in this is to swindle in the game. The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound. Pattern and argument live in each other; and it is by the brevity, clearness, charm, or emphasis of the second, that we judge the strength and fitness of the first.
le grand style with hypotaxis and rhetorical periodYou could try imitating Thomas Mann or other writers who wrote like that.train yourself by rewriting passages you like from memory and then compare with originalt. erasmus, de copia
In English trying to make your sentences long and elaborate comes off as persnicketyConsidering most people that write like that are copying French composition, just learn French.English is English and French is French, never the twain shall meet
you view language as legos and start building some really elaborate structures but you need grammatical training to know how to fit them together, otherwise it will become spaghetti
>>24828920Murder some people in a state with no death penalty.
>>24828920If you know how to uses tenses and point of view properly then the rest is just tacking on layers of dependent clauses.
>>24828920Who cares about making lengthy sentences. Just write well
>>24828978>de copiacope
>>24828920read absalom absalom
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>>24829068that's cheating
>>24829072Problem?
>>24828920I can do those40 words easy
>>24829019>you need grammatical trainingyou really don't lmao. just have a high verbal iq and read authors who use a lot of long elaborate sentences and soon it will become hard for you to write any other way
>>248289201)A STUDY IN EXTRAPOLATIONYou get good at juggling by juggling a lot.You get good at solving crosswords by solving crosswords a lot.You get good at making long sentences by —2)Make friends with the colon, the semi-colon and the em-dash.3)Read competent writers who use long sentences. (Then try to copy them, which brings you right back to (1).)Here's something to get you started:If the reader will further understand that this affliction was not, as the heaviest afflictions oftentimes become, a mere remembrance echoing from past times — possibly “a long since cancelled woe”; but that it was a two-headed snake, looking behind and before, and gnawing at his heart by the double pangs of memory and of anxiety, gloomy and fearful, watching for the future; and finally, that the object of this anxiety, who might at any moment be torn from his fireside, to return, after an interval of mutual suffering, (not to be measured, or even guessed at, but in the councils of God), was that Madonna-like lady, who, to him renewed the case described with such pathetic tenderness by the Homeric Andromache — being, in fact, his “all the world”; fulfilling at once all offices of tenderness and duty; and making up to him, in her single character of sister, all that he had lost of maternal kindness — all that for her sake he had forborne to seek of affections, conjugal or filial: — weighing these accumulated circumstances of calamity, the feeling reader will be ready to admit that Lamb’s cup of earthly sorrow was full enough, to excuse many more than he could be taxed with, of those half-crazy eccentricities in which a constant load of secret affliction (such, I mean, as must not be explained to the world) is apt to discharge itself.~ Thomas De Quincey, ‘Literary Reminiscences: Charles Lamb’
>>24829103With or without ands and semicolons?
>>24830338ands ifs ors whens all kinds of clauses no semi colons
>>24830338here ya go - Too many USA leftists in positions of authority and trust are abusing their free speech privileges by publicly expressing reprehensible personal opinions via social media with cheerleading and happiness that their political opponent Charlie Kirk was assassinated by some nutty troon.
>>24828920schizophrenia - never finish a sentence by never finishing a thought
>>24828920Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them; after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce, and to the oppression of our loyal subjects carrying on the same; have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion, by arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us: And whereas, there is reason to apprehend that such rebellion hath been much promoted and encouraged by the traitorous correspondence, counsels and comfort of divers wicked and desperate persons within this Realm: To the end therefore, that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal, we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue our Royal Proclamation, hereby declaring, that not only all our Officers, civil and military, are obliged to exert their utmost endeavours to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice, but that all our subjects of this Realm, and the dominions thereunto belonging, are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us, our crown and dignity; and we do accordingly strictly charge and command all our Officers, as well civil as military, and all others our obedient and loyal subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which they shall know to be against us, our crown and dignity; and for that purpose, that they transmit to one of our principal Secretaries of State, or other proper officer, due and full information of all persons who shall be found carrying on correspondence with, or in any manner or degree aiding or abetting the persons now in open arms and rebellion against our Government, within any of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, in order to bring to condign punishment the authors, perpetrators, and abetters of such traitorous designs.
