Paragraph Title: A Great Way to Use a Colon

This is the topic sentence of this paragraph, which gives the reader a good understanding of not only the subject of the brief text to follow, but also a sense of the writer's opinion on this interesting subject. This is the second sentence of the paragraph which adds a little more information about the subject (some of it rendered parenthetically) and also serves as a buffer to the real meat of the subject to be presented in the forthcoming sentences. Introduced by a participial phrase, this sentence adds concrete strength and foolproof logic to drive the point home, although it does contain one grammatical errors. And this sentence begins with a conjunction, makes clever use of gerunding, and ends with a prepositional phrase. How will this interrogative sentence be answered? With an italicized fragment. The main clause of this sentence should be able to stand as a sentence on its own, though unfortunately it is concluded with a subordinate clause. This sentence makes use of a correlative conjunction, resulting in a sentence comprised of not seventeen, not nineteen, but a whopping twenty-three words. This sentence uses a flowery appositive, or sentence interruptor if you will, in a failed attempt to distract attention away from the egregious non-sequitur at the end of the sentence, caused largely by the fact that all Nobel Prize winners were at one point registered Republicans. This sentence draws particular attention to the use of a potentially new or unfamiliar form of punctuation known as "quotation marks." What an upbeat exclamatory sentence this has turned out to be! In conclusion, this sentence should have brought the reader down for a gentle landing at the end of the paragraph if only the writer hadn't forgotten the period at the end


(this is a repost of a piece that I wrote several years ago - the original is located here: http://uu.cx/essays/paragraph.html)