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How long is the perfect sentence?
There is an unhelpful answer to this: however long you need it to be. There are also answers which are intended to be useful, but which give you precise word counts and so become useless as soon as you try to express something very simple or exceedingly complex. I will try here to offer you some rather more productive guidelines.
I was taught in school that most of the sentences I wrote should be 12–25 words long. This is not a bad guideline, as long as you are prepared to have some longer sentences when you need them and some much, much shorter sentences when you want to create punchy impact. Sentence length is all about variety: because different ...
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