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Q&A Can this sentence have the same detail and yet be simple to comprehend?

There is nothing wrong with a long sentence, but it should still be a sentence. Long sentences generally result from qualification and elaboration of a single point. But that is not what is happeni...

posted 7y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2020-01-03T20:41:53Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:10:59Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/26976
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:10:59Z (over 4 years ago)
There is nothing wrong with a long sentence, but it should still be a sentence. Long sentences generally result from qualification and elaboration of a single point. But that is not what is happening in this sentence. Rather it is telling a sequence of events as the midwife reassembles the child. This is a paragraph knit together into a sentence with semicolons. But there is no good reason to run all these events together into a single sentence. Essentially, you should have periods where you have semicolons.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-03-01T00:51:15Z (about 7 years ago)
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