Poetry

Monday, January 14, 2013

This Sentence Will Make You Smarter: Sentence with Parallel Participial Phrases



Mourning his dead father, berating his clueless mother, and continually contemplating the murder of his remorseless, treacherous, and lecherous uncle, Hamlet is not having a good day.
Notice that the sentence above begins with three parallel participial phrases; each is a present participial beginning with an -ing verb.  Also, notice that the sentence ends with an independent clause, making it a periodic sentence.

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