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It’s thought that counts when it comes to good prose

3 November 2018

9:00 AM

3 November 2018

9:00 AM

This is a sentence. As is this — not an exceptionally beautiful one, but a sentence all the same, just telling you what it needs to tell you, just getting on with things, doing its job. Sentences are everyday, functional things, ubiquitous and unappreciated. And Joe Moran thinks it’s about time we started noticing them.

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