Splitting sentences

　　As it is mentioned in numerous treatises and professional papers that,English is a language,in cMPArison with Chinese which puts an emphasis on describing the outward beauties of the described , that is particularly logic,probing into the abstract interior essence of things.Accoding to the thinking modes of Chinese,they would like to describe a thing neatly,that is to say,to set great store by the wholeness of the matter,not willing to neglect or delete any segment of a thing to be pictured ,and they manage ,by various means whatsoever,to arrange a matter according to a kind of rule,in terms of time,location,etc.However,English turns the Chinese rule of writing upside down by creating a kind of writing orderless and seemingly messy in a Chinese point of view,which actually reflects the English style of life and the way of meditation.

　　Splitting sentences is a typical technique that prevails in English writing.Many experts have pointed out that learning how to split sentences is a key step towards standard and excellent English writing.Splitting sentences,as its name suggests,is to break a presumably whole sentence into several parts,thus looking as if it had eliminated the original confluence it should have had.Actually,in the eyes of an advanced English learner,splitting sentences has even better promote the confluence of a sentence.

　　Although it has broken a whole sentence,it does not break the interrelationship between every single part of the sentence,and all the independent segments of a splitted sentence are closely linked to each other,so to speak,they are not strictly independent .In other words,each part is insegregable from the splitted sentence,and the loss of any part will destruct the order and harmony within it. Splitting a sentence cements the elements of it by scattering them .It reflects the English way of thinking and works out a logical co-existence between each part.

　　The following are excerpts from some English essays that are classic splitted sentences considered by me.

　　1. There are two sorts of avarice:the one is but of a bastard kind,and that is,the rapacious appetite of gain;not for its own sake,but for the pleasure of refunding it immediately through all the channels of pride and luxury;the other is the kind,and properly so called;which is a restless and unsatiable desire of riches,not for any farther end or use,but only to hoard,and preserve,and perpetually increase them.(Abraham Cowley: Of Avarice)

　　2. When I am in a serious humour,I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey,where the gloominess of the place,and the use to which it is applied,with the solemnity of the building,and the condition of the people who lie in it,are apt to fill the mind with a kind of mechancholy,or rather thoughtfulness,that is not disagreeable.(Joseph Addison: Thoughts in Westminster Abbey)

　　3.The sun did not shine clearly,but it spread through the clouds a tender,diffused light,crossed by level cloud bars,which stretched to a great length,quite parallel.(William Hale White: An Afernoon Walk in October)

　　4.Living thus,he came by chance one day to a clear fountian,and (being in the heat of noon)lay down by it;when beholding in the water his own image,he fell into such a study and then into such a rapturous admiration of himself,that he could not drawn away from gazing at the shadowy picture,but remained rooted to the spot till sense left him;and at last he was changed into the flower that bears his name;a flower which appears in the early spring;and is sacrid to the infernal deities,----Pluto,Proserpine,and the Furies.(Francis Bacon: Narcissus;or Self-Love)


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