Sentence length : a theoretical overview

Abstract EN

Writers usually exert many efforts in writing sentences with the proper length.

Some of them stick to short sentences, which can make their writing looks choppy.

Others like to write with long sentences, which can make the writing seems long-winded or wordy, even if it is not.

In English language, the length of a sentence refers to how many words are there in that sentence.

In almost all formulas, this number is used to estimate how much the sentence is difficult.

Still, sometimes, a short sentence shows more difficulty to be read than a long one.

Sometimes, longer sentences lead to facilitate comprehension, especially those that contain coordinate structures.

This study discusses the basic grammatical notion of sentence, and its length from different points of view.

Innumerable definitions of sentence exist and some of these are presented here to get a workable definition to this key term.

A definition of sentence length is also presented.

Different treatments of the so called sentence length are to be discussed.

The various techniques, that have been devised to deal with the sentence in different types of texts as to get better writings, are accounted for in this study.

These points are discussed to reach the end, i.

e.

the conclusion of good sentence length.