When the novel was reissued in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, James Blish noted that Morris's style was a successful recapturing of the style of Sir Thomas Malory, " all the way down to the marginal glosses and the nonstop compound sentences hitched together with scores of semicolons.
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Claiming that " a compound sentence without a comma is a run-on sentence " is an example of prescriptive grammar; it only takes a little common sense to see that this does not reflect the actual state of the world . contribs 15 : 37, 9 November 2009 ( UTC)
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Specifically, Corder reports Lapine Foreigner Talk to consist of 73 % simple sentences, 15 % compound sentences ( 70 % paratactic and 30 % marked coordination ), and 12 % complex sentences ( with 60 % complemented by the four verbs " think ", " know ", " say ", and " tell " ).
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I take no issue with the first clause in the compound sentence, but the second clause, ( " [ Perkins ] reiterated that homosexuals are more likely to be pedophiles despite scientific evidence to the contrary . " ) is a synthesis of two cited primary sources : the MSNBC interview of Perkins and an APA study on sexual orientation.
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In both cases, each component sentence ( i . e . " " Al Gore was president of the USA on April 20, 2000 " " and " " the moon is made of green cheese " " ) is false, but each compound sentence formed by prefixing the phrase " " Mary believes that " " differs in truth-value.
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On the subject of that popular Tim Allen movie from 1994, it may be the culprit behind a common gripe from local Clauses : the seemingly widespread tendency of people to confuse a jolly, fat old man with what Webster's defines as " a group of words containing a subject and predicate and functioning as a member of a complex or compound sentence ."
