's novel
was published in 1719. No one can deny that writing styles, especially in
, have changed dramatically in the last three hundred years. The first chapter of this work
contains more than five thousand words, and among all those words, very few "simple
sentences" occur. Among modern authors, the short sentence is often preferred. Not so in
Defoe's day.
A simple sentence is defined as a sentence with one clause; it
could have a dual subject or a...
No comments:
Post a Comment