Findlay, Elspeth (2001) Soon we'll all be authors. Intermedia, 29 (2). pp. 30-32. ISSN 0309-118X
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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.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 1021 |
| Keywords: | english studies, grammar, authors, writing, English, English literature |
| Subjects: | Language and Literature > English Language and Literature > English literature |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > English |
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| Depositing user: | Allison Crawford |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2006 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 10:36 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/1021 |
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