Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft Season 1 Episode 15 Degrees of Suspensiveness

  • May 8, 2025
  • 31 min

In this lecture, you unpack the periodic/suspensive sentence, which suggests a greater degree of control over its material and, when used effectively, can generate interest by combining complex concepts with syntactical suspense.

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  • First Aired
    May 8, 2025
  • Runtime
    31 min
  • Language
    English
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