Lessons on Writing Effective Sentences Part IV:

Using periodic sentence structure can be rhetorically effective when used in short sentences as well, as the following passages illustrate: And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look. (Virginia Woolf) But law, although odorless, is no less a metaphor for social relations than blood. Blood, it happens, congeals into a better social glue ... ................
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