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Sentence Fluency Snake

Sentence Fluency ■

Effective writing flows smoothly from sentence to sentence. In the following passage, Bryce McCain pays attention to sentence variety when describing a special Japanese art form called manga.

Manga (whimsical pictures) are taking over the world. These serialized Japanese comics developed throughout the 1800s, became a sales juggernaut in the 1950s, and now have captured 76 percent of the comic book market in the U.S. Most manga are published in black and white, which makes them easy to create and cheap to print. Storylines in every imaginable genre hook readers and keep them coming back for more. Worldwide, manga earn more than $1 billion per year. . . .

Discussion: Notice how Bryce varies his sentence beginnings and lengths. The longest sentence contains 29 words, and the shortest ones contains 8 words.

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