Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1739 short lesson, about 20 seconds
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The idea
Sentences remain long, particularly in the Victorian novel, but inversion is rarer than in the seventeenth century. Unit two's parse still applies to a Dickens period sentence, which can run a full paragraph before its main clause completes.
In practice
Long, but less inverted.
Where people slip
A sentence may run a paragraph.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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