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Sentences have been around since the dawn of paragraphs, and indeed since before that, for sentences are essentially the building blobs of a paragraph.

Though he doesn’t mention that experience in his new book, How To Write a Sentence and How To Read One, it’s not far offstage.

In this small feast of a book Stanley Fish displays his love of the English sentence, and even without Puccini to help, his enthusiasm is seductive.

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