LENGTHY SENTENCES.
EXAMPLES IN THE TIMES. Mr. P. B. Ballard, who reads tho newspapers with much attention, finds that tho average sentence in a leading article in the Times contains 30 words. That is more than Macaulav and less than Johnson. But Printing House Square can take its fling on occasion. In its account of the funeral of Lord Fisher, was a sentence of 41 lines and 281 words, with a single semi-colon in the middle. In the Times report of a speech by Lord Balfour at Cardiff was a sentence of 530 words, an achievement which Gladstone could hardly have beaten. Which is the longest printed sentence in the English language ? asks a writer in the Observer. Apart from acts of Parliament, ho says, it may well be Ha/.litt's of 110 lit es on Coleridge (" The Spirit of the Age"), though possibly Ruskin or Henry Jair.es may have exceeded it. A curiosity :in this way is Wordsworth's poem " The Happy Warrior," which, apart from the opening and closing couplets, consists entirely of two very long compound sentences, one of them running to 57 line?.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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185LENGTHY SENTENCES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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